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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1998
Alwin B. Carus, Burlington, MA (US);
Kathleen Good, Providence, RI (US);
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., Ieper, BE;
Abstract
A method and device for identifying word boundaries in continuous text compares the continuous text to a set of varying length strings to identify candidate word-initial boundaries and candidate word-final boundaries in the continuous text. Each candidate word-initial boundary and candidate word-final boundary has an associated probability value. Each candidate word boundary in the continuous text is identified by calculating a word boundary score for such candidate word boundary using the probability values associated with the candidate word-initial boundaries and candidate word-final boundaries. The set of varying length strings may include words and n-grams.