US Patent 9411800 Adaptive generation of out-of-dictionary personalized long words

A system is provided, including a display unit, a memory unit, and a processor. The processor is configured to calculate a mutual information value between a first chunk and a second chunk, and to add a new word to a language unit when a condition involving the mutual information value is satisfied. The new word is a combination of the first chunk and the second chunk. The processor is also configured to add the new word into an n-gram store. The n-gram store includes a plurality of n-grams and associated frequency or count information. The processor is also configured to alter the frequency or count information based on the new word.