Cross-Lingual Input Method Editor

• US 20150106702A1
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Scott, Matthew Robert, Ngari, Joseph K., Lee, Joo-Young, Liu, Weipeng, Lai, Rongfeng, Chen, Xi, Hou, Huihua
• Application Number:
  US13/635,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20150106702A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/265
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements for cross lingual candidate suggestion. For instance, some display a user interface of a host application including a text entry area. An input method editor (IME) receives one or more characters as input. In response, one or more completion candidates are displayed, at least one of the completion candidates being a cross lingual completion candidate in a language different from the one or more characters.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more computer readable media maintaining instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

displaying a user interface of a host application including a text entry area;

receiving, by an input method editor (IME), one or more characters, the IME to insert a completion candidate of one or more completion candidates into the text entry area of the host application; and

displaying the one or more completion candidates, at least one of the completion candidates being a cross lingual completion candidate in a language different from the one or more characters.

2. The computing system as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of at least one of the one or more displayed completion candidates; and

inserting the at least one selected completion candidate into the text entry area of the host application.

3. The computing system as recited in claim 1, wherein the displaying the one or more completion candidates includes:

for at least one cross lingual completion candidate, displaying candidate information corresponding to the cross lingual completion candidate, the candidate information including a version of the cross lingual completion candidate in a language different from the cross lingual completion candidate.

4. The computing system as recited in claim 3, wherein the language different from the cross lingual completion candidate is the language of the one or more characters.

5. The computing system as recited in claim 4, wherein the version of the cross lingual completion candidate included in the candidate information is in a different writing system from the one or more characters.

6. The computing system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more completion candidates displayed are displayed in an order based on a ranking of the completion candidates.

7. The computing system as recited in claim 6, wherein the ranking of the one or more completion candidates is based at least in part on contextual information about an insertion point at which one or more of the completion candidates are to be inserted.

8. The computing system as recited in claim 1, wherein the displaying the one or more completion candidates includes:

for at least one completion candidate that is in the language of the one or more characters, displaying candidate information corresponding to the completion candidate that is in the language of the one or more characters, the candidate information including a version of the corresponding completion candidate that is in a language different from the completion candidate.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving contextual information for the term; and

ranking the one or more completion candidates based, at least in part, on the contextual information.

11. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein the contextual information includes information about an insertion point at which one or more of the completion candidates are to be inserted into a computer application.

12. A method as recited in claim 11, wherein the information about the insertion point includes at least an n-gram and the ranking is based at least in part on collocation.

13. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein the contextual information includes scenario information about a computer application and environment into which the completion candidates are to be inserted.

14. A method as recited in claim 13, wherein the scenario information includes at least one of a process name, an input scope, a version of the computer application, and an operating system.

9. A method comprising:

receiving at least part of a term; and

identifying or generating, by a processor, one or more completion candidates, at least one of the completion candidates being in a language different from the term.

15. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising:

ranking the one or more completion candidates, wherein when a plurality of completion candidates are identified or generated, the ranking of at least one completion candidate is based at least in part on whether the completion candidate is in a different language from the term.

16. One or more computer readable media maintaining instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

receiving, by an input method editor (IME), one or more characters, the IME to insert an completion candidate of one or more completion candidates into the text entry area of the host application;

requesting, from a remote service including at least one computing device, one or more completion candidates; and

receiving the one or more completion candidates from the remote service, at least one of the completion candidates being a cross lingual completion candidate in a language different from the one or more characters;

displaying the one or more completion candidates.

17. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 16, the acts further comprising:

receiving a selection of at least one of the one or more displayed completion candidates; and

inserting the at least one selected completion candidate into the text entry area of the host application.

18. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 16, the acts further comprising:

determining a number of characters in the one or more characters; and

wherein the requesting is performed when the number of characters in the one or more characters is greater than predefined number.

19. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 16, the acts further comprising:

prior to the requesting, identifying or generating one or more completion candidates in a same language as the one or more characters;

determining a number of the completion candidates in the same language as the one or more characters; and

wherein the requesting is performed when the number of completion candidates in the same language as the one or more characters is less than predefined number.

20. One or more computer readable media as recited in claim 16, wherein the requesting is performed when a foreign language mode is enabled in one of the IME or the host application.