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Arabic spell checking technique

  • US 9,037,967 B1
  • Filed: 02/18/2014
  • Issued: 05/19/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2014
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An Arabic language spelling error detection and correction method, comprising:

  • comparing digitized text with a corpus database of Arabic words and sentences to identify text errors and grammatical errors in the digitized text;

    identifying a plurality of candidate correction options from a dictionary of text for at least one of the text errors and the grammatical errors identified in the comparing, wherein the candidate correction options are detected with a plurality of n-gram statistic model sequences,ranking the candidate correction options in order of highest probability of most correct alternative using the n-gram statistical model sequences,selecting a highest probability correction word according to the context of the text,conducting a final end of file evaluation by comparing the highest probability correction word with the corresponding text error or grammatical error to assess the accuracy of the highest probability correction word; and

    initiating a word correction by substituting the text error or the grammatical error with the highest probability correction word when the accuracy of the selected word is positive.

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