METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPELL CHECKING IN TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES

• US 20090319258A1
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Steven J. Shaer
• Original Assignee: Steven J. Shaer
• Inventors: SHAER, Steven J.
• Application Number:
  US12/144,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20090319258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for multi-language word spelling verification and correction, including providing one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules for two or more languages; selecting two or more languages for use with the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules; and performing verification and correction words of a document or data entry field written in the two or more languages based on the selected two or more languages using the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules.

Claims

1. A computer implemented multi-language word spelling verification and correction method, the method comprising:

providing one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules for two or more languages;

selecting two or more languages for use with the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules; and

performing verification and correction words of a document or data entry field written in the two or more languages based on the selected two or more languages using the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a primary language and one or more secondary languages for use with the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules; and

performing verification and correction words of a document or data entry field written in the primary language and the one or more secondary languages based on the selected primary language and the one or more secondary languages using the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing the verification based on user selected prioritization rules.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying to a user a target word of the words of the document or the data entry field that is verified and corrected.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

verifying and correcting spelling of the words of the document or the data entry field against the primary language based on the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules;

indicating words that are spelled incorrectly in the primary language; and

verifying and correcting spelling of the words indicated as being spelled incorrectly in the primary language against the one or more secondary languages.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

verifying spelling of a word of the words of the document or the data entry field against the primary language; and

if the word is verified as spelled correctly in the primary language, processing a next word of the words of the document or the data entry field against the primary language.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

verifying spelling of a word of the words of the document or the data entry field against the primary language;

if the word is verified as not spelled correctly in the primary language, verifying spelling of the word against the one or more secondary languages;

if the word is verified as spelled correctly in the one or more secondary languages, highlighting the word in the document or the data entry field to uniquely indicate in which of the one or more secondary languages the word is spelled correctly; and

if the word is verified as not spelled correctly in the one or more secondary languages, highlighting the word in the document or the data entry field to uniquely indicate that the word is not spelled correctly in the primary language and the one or more secondary languages.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing spelling suggestions for a word of the words of the document or the data entry field based on the languages selected and a manner in which the languages are selected.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

verifying and correcting spelling of a word of the words of the document or the data entry field against the selected two or more languages based on the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules; and

uniquely indicating in the document or the data entry field in which of the one or more spelling dictionaries the word is found.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising highlighting the word in the document or the data entry field to uniquely indicate in which of the one or more spelling dictionaries the word is found.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

verifying and correcting spelling of a word of the words of the document or the data entry field against the selected two or more languages based on the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules;

if the word is found in the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules, processing a next word of the words of the document or the data entry field against the selected two or more languages based on the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules; and

if the word is not found in the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules, uniquely indicating in the document or the data entry field that the word is not found in the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising highlighting the word in the document or the data entry field to uniquely indicate that the word is not found in the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules.

13. A computer implemented system for multi-language word spelling verification and correction, the system comprising:

one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules for two or more languages;

means for selecting two or more languages for use with the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules; and

means for performing verification and correction words of a document or data entry field written in the two or more languages based on the selected two or more languages using the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules.

14. A computer program product for multi-language word spelling verification and correction including one or more computer readable instructions embedded on a computer readable medium and configured to cause one or more computer processors to perform the steps of:

providing one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules for two or more languages;

selecting two or more languages for use with the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules; and

performing verification and correction words of a document or data entry field written in the two or more languages based on the selected two or more languages using the one or more spelling dictionaries and spelling rules.