Inventors:
Joseph Becker - Palo Alto CA, US
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation - Norwalk CT
International Classification:
G06F 17/00, G06F 17/20, G06F 17/21, G06F 17/22, G06F 17/24, G06F 17/25, G06F 17/26, G06F 17/27, G06F 17/28
Abstract:
Methods and systems for romanizing Chinese ideograms allow a user to create a personalized spelling dictionary that converts a user's desired roman-alphabet spelling to an equivalent Chinese character. A phonetic combination from a standard Chinese dialect is selected. The user defines a roman alphabet equivalent of the selected phonetic combination that fits the way the user pronounces the phonetic combination in the user's own dialect or idiolect.