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Document based character ambiguity resolution

  • US 7,027,976 B1
  • Filed: 01/29/2001
  • Issued: 04/11/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product, stored on a machine-readable medium, comprising instructions operable to cause a programmable processor to:

  • search a document for a word that contains an end-of-line hyphen;

    create a solution set for the word containing the end-of-line hyphen, wherein each solution in the solution set is obtained by identifying the end-of-line hyphen as either a soft-hyphen that has been inserted into the word for typesetting purposes or a hard-hyphen that belongs in the word;

    search a dictionary for each solution in the solution set; and

    use the results from the dictionary search to identify the end-of-line hyphen as either a soft-hyphen or a hard-hyphen.

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