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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Claes-Fredrik U. Mannby, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, mobile electronic devices, and computer program products are provided for accepting abbreviated handwritten entry of phrases, sentences or paragraphs, and supplemental information ('hints'), and probabilistically determining the most likely translation of the abbreviated handwriting to a full text counterpart, and displaying same. Abbreviated handwriting is accepted and parsed according to a predefined reduction pattern to produce multi-character handwritten segments and corresponding segment hints. The multi-character handwritten segments and corresponding segment hints are evaluated using n-gram knowledge and/or language models to identify the most likely words corresponding to the multi-character handwritten segments. The most likely words are used to evaluate the abbreviated handwritten entry at the phrase level by evaluating the likelihood of transition from one word to the next amongst the most likely words, to compute phrase probabilities for various combinations of the most likely words. The most likely phrase(s) are output based in part on the phrase probabilities.