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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1979
David Glickman, Frederick, MD (US);
Evon C Greanias, Chappaqua, NY (US);
James T Repass, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Walter S Rosenbaum, Bethesda, MD (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for reducing storage requirements and accessing times in a text processing machine for automatic spelling verification and hyphenation functions. The system includes a method for storing a word list file and accessing the word list file such that legal prefixes and suffixes are truncated and only the unique root element, or 'stem', of a word is stored. A set of unique rules is provided for prefix/suffix removal during compilation of the word list file and subsequent accessing of the word list file. Spelling verification is accomplished by applying the rules to the words whose spelling is to be verified and application of the said rules provides, under most circumstances, a natural hyphenation break point at the prefix-stem and stem-suffix junctions.