MULTILINGUAL WORD PREDICTION

• US 20170357632A1
• Filed: 09/20/2016
• Published: 12/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: PAGALLO, Giulia, BELLEGARDA, Jerome R., RANGARAJAN SRIDHAR, Vivek Kumar, MARSDEN, Randal J., HOGG, Justin S.
• Granted Patent: US 10,592,601 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• 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

Systems and processes for multilingual word prediction are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, identifying context information of the electronic device and generating, with the one or more processors, a plurality of candidate words based on the context information, wherein a first candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a first language of a plurality of languages and a second candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a second language of the plurality of languages different than the first language.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

or more processors;

a memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

identifying context information of the electronic device; and

generating, with the one or more processors, a plurality of candidate words based on the context information, wherein a first candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a first language of a plurality of languages and a second candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a second language of the plurality of languages different than the first language.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device further comprises a touch-sensitive display, wherein the one or more programs further include instructions for:

displaying, with the touch-sensitive display, one or more candidate words of the plurality of candidate words.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs further include instructions for:

receiving a user input indicative of a selection of a candidate word of the one or more candidate words; and

inserting the selected candidate word.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the one or more programs further include instructions for:

receiving an at least partial word input,

wherein inserting the selected candidate word comprises;

replacing the at least partial word input with the selected candidate word.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein generating the plurality of candidate words based on the context information comprises:

generating the plurality of candidate words based on weighted probabilities of a recipient constraint model.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein one or more of the weighted probabilities correspond to a respective recipient.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the context information is first context information, wherein the one or more programs further include instructions for:

identifying second context information of the electronic device; and

in response to identifying the second context information, updating the recipient constraint model.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the context information is based on a language of a previous word input.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first language of the plurality of languages is a first regional dialect of a language and the second language of the plurality of languages is a second regional dialect of the language different than the first regional dialect.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, wherein the one or more programs further include instructions for:

identifying one or more languages based on the context information; and

displaying, using the touch-sensitive display, a multilingual keyboard, wherein a language of the multilingual keyboard is the identified one or more languages.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein displaying, using the touch-sensitive display, a multilingual keyboard comprises:

displaying each of a plurality of languages of the multilingual keyboard in a different manner.

12. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the one or more programs further include instructions for:

identifying a language based on the context information;

determining whether the identified language is a primary language of the multilingual keyboard;

in accordance with a determination that the identified language is not a primary language of the multilingual keyboard, assigning the identified language as the primary language of the multilingual keyboard; and

in accordance with a determination that the identified language is a primary language of the multilingual keyboard, forgoing assigning the identified language as the primary language of the multilingual keyboard.

13. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the context information includes textual data stored on the electronic device.

14. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein generating the plurality of candidate words based on the context information comprises:

generating candidate words associated with a predetermined maximum number of languages.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

identify context information of the electronic device; and

generate, with the one or more processors, a plurality of candidate words based on the context information, wherein a first candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a first language of a plurality of languages and a second candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a second language of the plurality of languages different than the first language.

16. A method for providing candidate words, comprising:

at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory;

identifying context information of the electronic device; and

generating, with the one or more processors, a plurality of candidate words based on the context information, wherein a first candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a first language of a plurality of languages and a second candidate word of the plurality of candidate words corresponds to a second language of the plurality of languages different than the first language.