Identifying language origin of words
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1. A method for determining a language of origin of a word comprising analyzing non-uniform letter sequence portions of the word.
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Abstract
The language of origin of a word is determined by analyzing non-uniform letter sequence portions of the word.
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- 1. A method for determining a language of origin of a word comprising analyzing non-uniform letter sequence portions of the word.
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11. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer perform steps to form a hypothesis of a language of origin of a word, the instructions comprising:
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segmenting the word into a string of letter chunks, the letter chunks being of non-uniform length of one or more letters;
calculating a plurality of probabilities, each probability being an indication of the word belonging to a different selected language by using a N-gram model based on letter chunks; and
outputting a hypothesis of the language of origin of the word based on the ascertained probabilities. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer perform steps to process language, the instructions comprising:
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determining a language of origin for a word based on analyzing non-uniform letter sequence portions of the word; and
outputting information pertaining to the determined language of origin for the word. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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