20. The method of claim 16, wherein said step of applying the set of heuristic rules further comprises locating identifying punctuation in said stored character string, and identifying a character-transition that precedes and a character-transition that follows said located punctuation.
16. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step, prior to said identifying step, of applying a set of heuristic rules to said stored character string to identify a character-transition in said first segment of said stored character string, said identification of a character-transition reducing the number of possible character combinations forming words in said stored character string.