Method and system for background grammar checking an electronic

Details Method and system for background grammar checking an electronic Method and system for background grammar checking an electronic

1996-11-14

2000-01-04

Powell, Mark R.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707531, 707533, 345347, G06F 1724, G06F 1727, G06F 314

Patent

active

060120754

ABSTRACT:
In an electronic word processing system environment, a system and method for verifying the accuracy of the grammatical composition of a sentence in the background. While the word processor is in edit mode, i.e., the user is entering data or commands, it is determined when there is an idle period. An idle period is when the user is not entering data or commands. During an idle period, a sentence is extracted from the electronic document. It is determined whether the sentence is of proper grammatical composition. If the sentence does not have proper grammatical composition, then an error indication is displayed to the user in the context of the electronic document. These tasks may be repeated for each sentence in the document until the entire document has been proofed or the idle period ends. When the user selects the error indication in the document, a pop-up menu is displayed beneath the sentence containing the error. The pop-up menu includes the top three suggestions for correcting the error, a command to ignore the error, and a tunnel to the foreground grammar checker dialog. The pop-up menu may also include a full sentence rewrite that replaces all of the errors in the sentence with the suggestion that will most likely correct each error.

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