Vladimir Nayfeld

US Patent:

20070276653, Nov 29, 2007

Filed:

May 23, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/438289

Inventors:

Charles M. Greenwald - Dayton OH, US
David E. Hilton - Dayton OH, US
Vladimir Nayfeld - Cincinnati OH, US
Keith D. Young - Sabrina OH, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/21

US Classification:

704 10

Abstract:

A system and method for multilingual spelling corrections employs a lexicon builder, which uses a metadata build process that extracts all words from the data source, along with their frequencies, to build a lexicon file using the data source with which a user will be working; and a spell checker algorithm, which determines the correct spelling of words used as input for a search of the data source by calculating a score value for words in the lexicon file according to a formula that distinguishes similarity between the input word from the user's search request and words contained in the lexicon file; and then rates the frequency of the input word against the words contained in the lexicon file. When a user inputs a word, words in the lexicon file are scored against the input word to determine a correct spelling or other spelling variant for the user to select.