Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input employing different groupings of data sources to disambiguate different parts of input

摘要

A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to generate compound language solutions by employing different groupings of data sources to generate different portions of the compound language solutions.

主权项

1. A handheld electronic device comprising:
an input element; an output element; a processor; and a memory, the memory having stored therein a number of objects including a number of language objects comprised of a number of linguistic elements, wherein at least some of the language objects are stored in a first data source corresponding to a generic word list, and wherein at least some of the language objects are stored in a second data source corresponding to a user-defined word list; wherein the processor is configured to:
detect an ambiguous input from the input element;search both the first data source corresponding to the generic word list and the second data source corresponding to the user-defined word list to identify a language object corresponding with an initial portion of the ambiguous input;search one of the first data source corresponding to the generic word list and the second data source corresponding to the user-defined word list to identify another language object corresponding with another portion of the ambiguous input; andoutput a representation of at least one proposed compound word for the ambiguous input to the output element, the representation comprising a representation of the language object and a representation of at least a portion of the another language object.