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Method for identifying the language of individual words

  • US 6,292,772 B1
  • Filed: 12/01/1998
  • Issued: 09/18/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer implemented method of determining if a word is from a target language comprising the steps of:

  • decomposing the word into a plurality of non-overlapping n-grams covering the entire word without gaps and without crossing word boundaries and including a first n-gram, one or more following n-grams, if present, and a last n-gram, determining if the first n-gram, one or more of the following n-grams, if present, and the last n-gram match non-overlapping n-gram patterns characteristic of words in the target language, and identifying the word as from the target language if the plurality of non-overlapping n-grams match the non-overlapping n-gram patterns characteristic of words in the target language.

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