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Washington (IPA: //) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state is named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. It is the only U.S. state named after a president.

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Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory and admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. In 2006, the Census Bureau estimated the state's population at 6,395,798. Residents are called "Washingtonians" (emphasis on the third syllable, pronounced as tone). Washington is sometimes called Washington state to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the US capital."

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  1. Mentioned In 234 Articles

  2. Word sense disambiguation

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Apr 4 2006)

    ...rspective on Word Sense Disambiguation Methods and their Evaluation, in: Proceedings of SIGLEX '97, Washington, D.C., 1997, pp. 79 86. In his 1997 paper, Hwee similarly noted: "WSD is a challenging taskand much... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   England   Information Retrieval   New York

  3. Computer architecture and process of patient generation, evolution, and simulation for computer based testing system using bayesian networks as a scripting language

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Apr 4 2006)

    ...e, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care,IEEE Press, Washington, D.C. 1983, pages 11-13, incorporated herein by reference. The clinical simulations used the MUMPS ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Monte Carlo   Ericsson   Ohio State University

  4. System for guiding users to formulate and use object extraction rules

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Mar 28 2006)

    ...ocabularies to construct object extraction rules. The input data are LANDSAT Thematic Mapperdata of Washington, D.C. The target object is the Pentagon. More precisely, the question is, can a user learn from the... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Steven L.   Green   Newton

  5. Language translation system and method using specialized dictionaries

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Feb 7 2006)

    ...e United States with a "202" area code, which would mean the user's telephone is associatedwith the Washington, D.C. region of the United States. Thus, the user's language would be pre-established as English.Th... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Japan   Russian   Qualcomm

  6. Computer architecture and process of patient generation, evolution, and simulation for computer based testing system

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Dec 20 2005)

    ...e, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care,IEEE Press, Washington, DC 1983, pages 11-13, incorporated herein by reference. The clinical simulations used the MUMPS la... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Monte Carlo   Ericsson   Ohio State University

  7. System, method and program for discriminating named entity

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Dec 13 2005)

    ...to be discriminated only by the simple collation with the dictionary. As in the case that the word "Washington", which is a personal name as well as a location name, appears in text, when a wordcan be taken eit... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Japan   Oregon   Osaka

  8. Methods for extracting information on interactions between biological entities from natural language text data

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Sep 27 2005)

    ...Virtual Tools to Real Problems, Kumosinski, T. andLiebman, M. N. (Eds.), American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. pp. 486-494; Kazic, 1994, In: New Data Challenges in Our Information Age Glaesar, P. S. and M... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hidden Markov Model   Washington   MIT Press

  9. System and method for text structuring and text generation

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Sep 6 2005)

    ...."Industry is not seriously involved in those efforts," Ohlander said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C. "Universities are at the forefront of the research."Department of Defense applications would ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   University of Florida   Department of Defense   Japan

  10. Interactive generation of graphical visualizations of large data structures

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Aug 9 2005)

    ...with more than 4 cities in the sample. This visualization shows some States (California (CA) 78 and Washington State (WA) 79) exhibit a strong correlation between Housing costand Climate, whereas no such correl... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   California   Texas   Microsoft

  11. Method and apparatus providing capitalization recovery for text

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Jul 26 2005)

    ...ormance Learning Name-finder," Proc. of the Fifth ACL Conf. on Applied Natural Language Processing, Washington, D.C., 1997, and to F. Kubala, R.Schwartz, R. Stone, and R. Weischedel, "Named Entity Extraction fr... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hidden Markov Model   Darpa   George Washington

  12. System for processing textual inputs using natural language processing techniques

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (May 31 2005)

    ...redby the Romans?", "Why do antibiotics work on colds but not on viruses?", "Who is the governor of Washington?", "Where does the Nile cross the equator?" and "When did they start vaccinating for small pox?". W... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   France   Seattle   Cornell University

  13. Dynamically delivering, displaying document content as encapsulated within plurality of capsule overviews with topic stamp

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Mar 8 2005)

    ...The Agency's original plan called for eliminating as many as 5,000 jobs in field offices and at the Washington headquarters. "The way this has turned out, it works to the agency's advantage, the employees' adva... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hungary   International Conference on Computational Linguistics   Microsoft

  14. Information cursors

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Oct 26 2004)

    ...Microsoft WINDOWS,version 3.1, operating system, which is sold by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington, a window may have a status bar that displays information about the object to which the cursor is c... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft Corporation of Redmond   Microsoft   Washington

  15. Mobile navigation of network-based electronic information using spoken input

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Jun 29 2004)

    ...fu and Adam Cheyer, in "Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural LanguageProcessing", Washington, D.C., pp. 1-7, Association for Computational Linguistics"The CommandTalk Spoken Dialogue System", ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Intel   Robert Moore   Microsoft

  16. Navigating network-based electronic information using spoken input with multimodal error feedback

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (May 25 2004)

    ...fu and Adam Cheyer, in "Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural LanguageProcessing", Washington, DC, pp. 1-7, Association for Computational Linguistics"The CommandTalk Spoken Dialogue System", 19... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Intel   Robert Moore   Microsoft

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