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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2009
Achraf Chalabi, Cairo, EG;
Hany Grees, Cairo, EG;
Mostafa Ashour, Cairo, EG;
Roaa Mohammed, Kirkland, WA (US);
Achraf Chalabi, Cairo, EG;
Hany Grees, Cairo, EG;
Mostafa Ashour, Cairo, EG;
Roaa Mohammed, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a system and method of transliterating Semitic languages with support for diacritics. An input module receives and pre-processes Romanized character and forwards the pre-processed Romanized characters to a transliteration engine. The transliteration engine selects candidate transliteration rules, applies the rules, and scores and ranks the results for output. To optimize search for candidate transliteration rules, the transliteration engine may apply word-stemming strategies to process inflections indicated by affixes. The present disclosure further describes optimizations as pre-processing emphasis text, caching, dynamic transliteration rule pruning, and buffering/throttling input. The system and methods are suitable for multiple applications including but not limited to web applications, windows applications, client-server applications and input method editors such as those via Microsoft Text Services Framework TSF™.