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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2000
Brian Ulicny, Winchester, MA (US);
Alex Vasserman, Malden, MA (US);
Paul Vozila, Arlington, MA (US);
Jeffrey P. Adams, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
ScanSoft, Inc., Peabody, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is given for automatically rewriting orthography of a stream of text words, for example, automatically and properly capitalizing words in the stream. If a word in the stream has an entry in an orthography rewrite lexicon, the word is automatically replaced with an orthographically rewritten form of the word from the orthography rewrite lexicon. In addition, selected words in the stream are compared to a plurality of features weighted by a maximum entropy-based algorithm, to automatically determine whether to rewrite orthography of any of the selected words.