Automatic context sensitive language correction and enhancement using an internet corpus

Abstract

A computer-assisted language correction system including spelling correction functionality, misused word correction functionality, grammar correction functionality and vocabulary enhancement functionality utilizing contextual feature-sequence functionality employing an internet corpus.

1 - 10 . (canceled) 
     
     
         11 . A computer-assisted language correction system comprising:
 at least one of:
 spelling correction functionality; 
 misused word correction functionality; 
 grammar correction functionality; and 
 vocabulary enhancement functionality; and 
   contextual feature-sequence functionality cooperating with at least one of said spelling correction functionality; said misused word correction functionality, grammar correction functionality and said vocabulary enhancement functionality and employing an internet corpus.   
     
     
         12 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 11  and wherein said grammar correction functionality includes at least one of punctuation, verb inflection, single/plural, article and preposition correction functionalities. 
     
     
         13 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 11  and wherein said grammar correction functionality includes at least one of replacement, insertion and omission correction functionalities. 
     
     
         14 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 11  and comprising:
 at least two of:
 said spelling correction functionality; 
 said misused word correction functionality; 
 said grammar correction functionality; and 
 said vocabulary enhancement functionality, and 
 
 wherein said contextual feature-sequence functionality cooperates with at least two of said spelling correction functionality; said misused word correction functionality, said grammar correction functionality and said vocabulary enhancement functionality and employing an internet corpus. 
 
     
     
         15 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 11  and comprising:
 at least three of:
 said spelling correction functionality; 
 said misused word correction functionality; 
 said grammar correction functionality; 
 said vocabulary enhancement functionality; and 
 
 wherein said contextual feature-sequence functionality cooperates with at least three of said spelling correction functionality; said misused word correction functionality, said grammar correction functionality and said vocabulary enhancement functionality and employing an internet corpus. 
 
     
     
         16 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 11  and comprising:
 said spelling correction functionality; 
 said misused word correction functionality; 
 said grammar correction functionality; and 
 said vocabulary enhancement functionality; and 
 wherein said contextual feature-sequence functionality cooperates with said spelling correction functionality; said misused word correction functionality, said grammar correction functionality and said vocabulary enhancement functionality and employing an internet corpus. 
 
     
     
         17 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 11  and wherein said correction generator comprises a corrected language generator operative to provide a corrected language output based on selections made by said selector without requiring user intervention. 
     
     
         18 - 53 . (canceled) 
     
     
         54 . A computer-assisted language correction system comprising context based scoring of various alternative corrections, based at least partially on contextual feature-sequence (CFS) frequencies of occurrences in an internet corpus. 
     
     
         55 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 54  and also comprising at least one of:
 spelling correction functionality; 
 misused word correction functionality; 
 grammar correction functionality; and 
 vocabulary enhancement functionality, 
 cooperating with said context based scoring. 
 
     
     
         56 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 54  and wherein said context based scoring is also based at least partially on normalized CFS frequencies of occurrences in an internet corpus. 
     
     
         57 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 54  and wherein said context based scoring is also based at least partially on a CFS importance score. 
     
     
         58 . A computer-assisted language correction system according to  claim 54  and wherein said CFS importance score is a function of at least one of the following:
 operation of a part-of-speech tagging and sentence parsing functionality; a CFS length; a frequency of occurrence of each of the words in the CFS and a CFS type. 
 
     
     
         59 . A computer-assisted language correction system comprising vocabulary enhancement functionality including:
 vocabulary-challenged words identification functionality;   alternative vocabulary enhancements generation functionality; and   context based scoring functionality, based at least partially on contextual feature-sequence (CFS) frequencies of occurrences in an internet corpus,   said alternative vocabulary enhancements generation functionality including thesaurus pre-processing functionality operative to generate alternative vocabulary enhancements.   
     
     
         60 - 66 . (canceled)