Method for Spell-Checking Location-Bound Words Within a Document
First Claim
1. A method for spell-checking location-bound words within a document, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a locationary comprising a plurality of words and, for each word, a corresponding location within which a spelling of the word is valid; and
comparing a location-bound word to those words in the locationary whose valid location corresponds to a location in the document of the location-bound word to determine if the location-bound word is correctly spelled.
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Abstract
The present invention uses spatial dictionaries (termed locationaries), for meaningfully checking and correcting the spelling of text on Geographic Information System (GIS) maps or other computer documents containing spatially, or coordinate-, bound text. Locationaries keep track of correctly spelled words and the geographic areas within which they are considered correctly spelled. In a preferred embodiment, locationaries are feature classes, ‘map layers’ of properly-spelled words or attributed features (objects). The invention selects such features from locationaries based on spatial criteria relative to the textual objects to spell-check. It then exports the attribute values to dictionaries that can be used by conventional spell checking engines. Once all errors and suggestions are found with such an engine and within user-specified criteria, a dialog is shown that contains a row per potentially-misspelled word found. From that dialog, the user can edit the word in the original textual object of the map.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for spell-checking location-bound words within a document, the method comprising the steps of:
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providing a locationary comprising a plurality of words and, for each word, a corresponding location within which a spelling of the word is valid; and comparing a location-bound word to those words in the locationary whose valid location corresponds to a location in the document of the location-bound word to determine if the location-bound word is correctly spelled. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for spell-checking location-bound words within a document, the method comprising the steps of:
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providing a plurality of dictionaries, at least some of the dictionaries each corresponding to a different language; determining which one or more languages are commonly spoken in a geographic location corresponding to the document location of the location-bound word; selecting the one or more dictionaries which correspond to the one or more languages commonly spoken in the geographic location corresponding to the document location of the location-bound word; and comparing the location-bound word to those words in the selected dictionaries whose valid location corresponds to the document location of the location-bound word to determine if the location-bound word is correctly spelled in the one or more commonly spoken languages. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. A method for controlling an amount of text within a document to be spell-checked, the method comprising the steps of:
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selecting, by a user, one of (a) a page layout or (b) one or more text objects within a page layout; and spell-checking only text that is visible within the selection.
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