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

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