Document based character ambiguity resolution

Details Document based character ambiguity resolution Document based character ambiguity resolution

2010-07-29

2011-11-29

Vo, Huyen X. (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Natural language

C704S010000, C704S257000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08069033

ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus for document based ambiguous character resolution. An application searches a document for words that do not contain ambiguous characters and adds them to a dictionary, then searches the document for words that do contain ambiguous characters. For each ambiguous word, a set of candidate solutions is created by resolving the ambiguous characters in all possible ways. The dictionary is searched for words matching members of the candidate solution set. When a single member is matched, the ambiguous characters are resolved accordingly. When no member or more than one member is matched, a user is prompted to resolve the ambiguous characters. Alternatively, when more than one member is matched, the ambiguous characters are resolved to obtain the largest word, the smallest word, the most words, or the fewest words.

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