Patent Document ID: 8046222
Application ID: 12104014

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a probability of a n-gram identifying a word; determining a number of atomic units in the n-gram; identifying a scaling weight depending on the number of atomic units in the n-gram; and applying, using one or more computers, the scaling weight to the probability of the n-gram identifying a word to determine a scaled probability of the n-gram identifying a word.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising: determining scaled probabilities of lesser order n-grams identifying words, the lesser order n-grams being derived from the n-gram; and removing the n-gram from a dictionary when a scaled probability of a combination of lesser order n-grams identifying a word differs from the scaled probability of the n-gram identifying a word by a specified threshold amount.