Office Natural Language Team Blog
Errant entry “denitrified” in Word 97
Yes, our spellchecker was responsible for the errant “denitrified”. But not since Word 97....
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 10/03/2006
Word breakers and morphological analysis
When we think of the Natural Language Group at Microsoft, most users associate our technology with...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 09/14/2006
Astronomical union consults MS spellchecker on pluton?
Nature is reporting that Owen Gingerich, head of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 08/24/2006
National Punctuation Day moved?
One year ago today was National Punctuation Day. Those pesky, perverse, and pernicious pieces of...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 08/22/2006
Paging Sargent Batchelor
Brand new in Office 2007: a red squiggle on the name Batchelor. Uh oh. I’d better explain. Everyone...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 08/03/2006
Updates in Office 2007 speller
Just finished updating the English lexicons for the Office 2007 speller. Here are some highlights:...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 07/25/2006
Microsoft Office 2003 now recognizes the Romansh language
[Note, this article is a translation from Thierry's original post which was written in French.] The...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 07/10/2006
'Old' vs. 'New' Spelling in French: A new Speller based on the French Spelling Reform
A few months ago, we released a brand-new French spell-checker for Office 2003 users (it was...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 07/05/2006
How to turn on contextual spelling in 2007 Office Word
Contextual spelling is turned on by default if your machine has at least 1 GB of RAM; however, it...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 06/30/2006
Launch of the Office Natural Language Team Blog
In an effort to connect with our customers, to provide teams outside of our own with more exposure...
Author: Natural Language Group Microsoft Office Date: 06/09/2006