Sentence processing apparatus and method thereof,utilizing dictionaries to interpolate elliptic characters or symbols
US6173253A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 24, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jan 9, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 24, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/247
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A document or sentence processing apparatus having an input unit for inputting characters, a display unit for displaying input characters and a processing unit for converting and editing the input characters, in which the processing unit has a candidate word extraction unit which extracts candidates for the words with their characters omitted and/or omitted words themselves by referring to the vocabulary dictionary storing words and their usage frequency, to the dictionary of transition between words defining the information on the transition between words and the probability of the transition between words, and by searching the characters before and after the elliptic character included in the input sentence into the vocabulary dictionary, and a determination unit which selects a single word among the extracted candidate words by referring to the dictionary of transition between words.
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