Patent ID: 8234232
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A word-spacing correction method for an electronic device comprising: (1) a learning process performed by a processor of the electronic device which includes: creating probability information about each feature from a corpus of correct words in a storage by extracting the features from the corpus of correct words from the storage and applying the extracted features and a probability model to the corpus of incorrect words, and creating error correction rules by applying the probability information to a corpus of incorrect words from which all spaces between words of the corpus of correct words are removed, including: (2) an applying process performed by the processor of the electronic device which includes: correcting word-spacing in a user's input sentence by applying the probability information and the error correction rules to the user's input sentence, wherein the selecting of the error correction rule is performed in accordance with the following Equations: wherein a term ‘Positive(Rule)’ comprises a number of word-spacing points that are properly corrected by applying the error correction candidate rule to the corpus of incorrect words, where a term ‘Negative(Rule)’ comprises a number of word-spacing points that are improperly corrected by applying the error correction candidate rule to the corpus of incorrect words, and where a term ‘Max_Score’ comprises a greatest score among the confidence scores of the error correction candidate rules.