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7584426 Browser-based spell checker  
A system and method is provided for a spell checker that includes sending a document to a spelling server which returns the document with associated spelling information, though the document could...
7581179 Information retrieving apparatus  
An information retrieving apparatus for retrieving predetermined information according to an input of text information, including an input operation section which selects characters from a defined...
7562295 Representing spelling and grammatical error state in an XML document  
The present invention provides markers for spelling and grammar errors and the proofing state of a word-processing document stored as an XML file. The markers are used to show where a spelling or...
7555480 Comparatively crawling web page data records relative to a template  
The invention provides a method of interactively crawling data records on a web page. Users may select various data records of interest on a web page to generate templates to search for similar...
7546529 Method and system for providing alternatives for text derived from stochastic input sources  
A computer-implemented method for providing a candidate list of alternatives for a text selection containing text from multiple input sources, each of which can be stochastic (such as a speech...
7529656 Translating method, translated sentence outputting method, recording medium, program, and computer device  
A translation method for properly recognizing and automatically translating a sentence containing an emphasized word including two or more successive identical characters. First, words in a source...
7516404 Text correction  
Systems and methods of correcting grammatical and spelling errors that involve improper positioning of a whitespace character and/or an extra whitespace character. Removal of an extra whitespace...
7503000 Method for generation of an N-word phrase dictionary from a text corpus  
A structure and method for automatically creating a dictionary for clustering text documents performs a first pass for each of the documents to determine a frequency of each word in each of the...
7496842 Apparatus and method for automatic spelling correction  
An automatic spelling correction apparatus. The apparatus comprises a storage device and a processing unit. The storage device stores a character group table containing a character sequence of each...
7496501 System and method for identifying base noun phrases  
A system and method identify base noun phrases (baseNP) in a linguistic input. A part-of-speech tagger identifies N-best part-of-speech tag sequences corresponding to the linguistic input. A baseNP...
7475344 Genders-usage assistant for composition of electronic documents, emails, or letters  
The present invention, in one embodiment, aids the user during composition of emails/letters/documents with assistance for correct gender usage. In one example application, first an automated user...
7475342 Systems, methods and computer program products for automatic dissemination of spelling rules within working groups  
Systems, methods, and computer program products for automatic dissemination of spelling rules within working groups. Exemplary embodiments include a method for automatic dissemination of spelling...
7464022 Word processing with artificial language validation  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for word processing. The techniques include receiving a word processing document that includes natural language...
7451398 Providing capitalization correction for unstructured excerpts  
Providing capitalization correction for unstructured excerpts is described. An excerpt of unstructured content is tokenized into a set of words. The set of words is analyzed for correct...
7444324 Search query processing to identify search string corrections that reflect past search query submissions of users  
A search engine process predicts the correct spellings of search terms within multiple-term search queries. In one embodiment, when a user submits a multiple-term search query that includes a...
7440941 Suggesting an alternative to the spelling of a search query  
A method and apparatus for suggesting an alternative spelling for a search query is provided. A request to search for files that match the search query is received. The alternative spelling is...
7430716 Enhanced efficiency in handling novel words in spellchecking module  
A method for adding words to an online dictionary used for spellchecking is described. A spellchecker module compares words of an electronic document with words in the online dictionary and...
7424674 Document distribution control system and method based on content  
A word processing tool is disclosed for checking the substance and not merely the spelling of words provided by a user. The word checker is capable of identifying potentially inappropriate word...
7404143 Server-based single roundtrip spell checking  
A single-roundtrip server-based spell checking service is provided. A client provides a composition to the server to be spell checked. The server performs a spell check on the composition and flags...
7401293 System and method for teaching spelling  
A computerized system and method of teaching spelling interfaces with an application that captures a user's misspelled words and adds them to a word database. A teacher or instructor may also add...
7398462 Common text framework  
A common text framework for application programs having documents of primarily text and input devices for entering and editing text of such documents is disclosed. The framework provides for the...
7290209 Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction  
A spell checker based on the noisy channel model has a source model and an error model. The source model determines how likely a word w in a dictionary is to have been generated. The error model...
7277088 Keyboard system with automatic correction  
A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual...
7254774 Systems and methods for improved spell checking  
The present invention leverages iterative transformations of search query strings along with statistics extracted from search query logs and/or web data to provide possible alternative spellings...
7254773 Automated spell analysis  
An apparatus, program product and method utilize automated analysis techniques to assist in the determination of acceptable usages of linguistic terms (e.g., words, phrases, acronyms, etc.). In...
7243305 Spelling and grammar checking system  
System of correcting misspelled words in input text detects a misspelled word in the input text, determines a list of alternative words for the misspelled word, and ranks the list of alternative...
7231593 System and method for managing a spreadsheet  
A system and method for managing a spreadsheet are disclosed. The method may include comparing two or more data statements, retrieving data from a portion of one of the data statements based on the...
7225189 Data source write back and offline data editing and storage in a spreadsheet  
Methods and systems provide for bi-directional communication between a spreadsheet application worksheet and a database data source that allows modified data to be written from a spreadsheet...
7155667 User interface for integrated spreadsheets and word processing tables  
An architecture integrates spreadsheet functionality into tables commonly used in word processing programs and HTML documents. The architecture presents a table user interface (UI) that resembles a...
7149970 Method and system for filtering and selecting from a candidate list generated by a stochastic input method  
A computer-implemented method and system for correcting text input from a stochastic input source is provided. After a text component such as a word or phrase is identified as erroneous where, for...
7149550 Communication terminal having a text editor application with a word completion feature  
The input of words into a text string in a communication terminal is handled by recording a key stroke sequence inputted for characterising one of said words, and comparing said key strokes...
7143350 Method and system for character sequence checking according to a selected language  
A method and system for checking the validity of a sequence of input characters according to the syntactical rules of a selected language is provided. If an input character may not begin a valid...
7088345 Keyboard system with automatic correction  
A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual...
7076731 Spelling correction system and method for phrasal strings using dictionary looping  
A spelling correction system and method for phrasal strings using a dictionary looping technique. The method of the present invention includes spelling correction of an input phrasal string by...
7032174 Automatically adding proper names to a database  
The correct spelling of resolved email names is automatically stored in a custom dictionary. Thereafter, a spell checker will recognize the name during the spell checking process, because the name...
7030863 Virtual keyboard system with automatic correction  
There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which uses word-level analysis to correct inaccuracies automatically in user keystroke entries on reduced-size or virtual keyboards. A method and...
7003725 Method and system for normalizing dirty text in a document  
A method and system of normalizing dirty text in a document. The present invention creates a thesaurus that evolves over time as new document collections are analyzed. This thesaurus, which is used...
7003446 Grammar-based automatic data completion and suggestion for user input  
In a computer, a user interface allows users to input requests to various applications or software modules executing on the computer. During the input process, the invention presents to the user a...
6918086 Method and apparatus for updating database of automatic spelling corrections  
When the user enters a word in a document, the word is parsed. If the word is misspelled, a static update list is checked to see if the misspelled word has an automatic correction. If the word is...
6889361 Educational spell checker  
Method and apparatus for improving a user's ability to spell words correctly are provided. The method comprises: displaying a word list for user selection of a correctly spelled word; and...
6879951 Chinese word segmentation apparatus  
A Chinese word segmentation apparatus relates to processing of a Chinese sentence input to a computer. A character-to-phonetic converter of the segmentation apparatus initially converts a Chinese...
6799303 Speed typing apparatus and method  
A speed typing method and apparatus having multiple letters associated with each key of a keyboard. By utilizing multiple characters on each key, the number of keys would be fewer than the number...
6782510 Word checking tool for controlling the language content in documents using dictionaries with modifyable status fields  
A word processing tool is disclosed for checking the substance and not merely the spelling of words provided by a user. The word checker is capable of identifying potentially inappropriate word...
6779934 Printer having a spell checking feature  
A print apparatus having a spell checking feature has a processor and a memory for storing a spell checking program. A computer coupled to the print apparatus may be used to instruct the print...
6779151 Storing objects in a spreadsheet  
A spreadsheet application provides a rich programming and modeling environment. The spreadsheet application of the present invention does this by recognizing a new “object” data type in...
6760477 Method and apparatus for entering data strings including Hangul (Korean) and ASCII characters  
Described are methods for entering and editing data strings that are inputted into cellular telephones having a screen. In one method, all basic Hangul consonants and some of the compound Hangul...
6732333 System and method for managing statistical data regarding corrections to word processing documents  
A method of analyzing data comprises the steps of collecting predefined data from at least one word processing program, the data including information concerning mistakes included in text, storing...
6728933 System and method for importing data  
Data is imported into a word processor application, such as Lotus WordPro, on a non-Windows workstation. Data is set in power fields in a first platform using a script program attached to the first...
6701485 Binding spreadsheet cells to objects  
Spreadsheet cells are bound to external objects using a direct communication scheme having little processing overhead. A spreadsheet cell is bound to an object external to the spreadsheet, exposing...
6646573 Reduced keyboard text input system for the Japanese language  
A reduced keyboard system for the Japanese language which uses word-level disambiguation of entered keystroke sequences, and which enables the user to select the desired interpretation of an...
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