Efficient capitalization through user modeling

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2004-04-06

2010-11-02

Smits, Talivaldis Ivars (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

C704S009000, C704S010000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07827025

ABSTRACT:
A method of automatically capitalizing text utilizes a capitalization model. The capitalization model is trained from data that is taken from documents associated with a particular user. In particular, documents that are authored by the user such as e-mails, are used to train the model.

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