18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the degree of reliability for updating the existing input method editor dictionary using the word corpus is based on a level of formality of the word corpus, and wherein a specific word corpus having a greater level of formality has a greater degree of reliability.
17. The method of claim 12 , wherein the weight is proportional to the degree of reliability, and wherein a larger weight causes larger adjustments to the associated word probability values.