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.
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. 26. The method of claim 16, wherein said step of applying the set of heuristic rules further comprises locating identifying Kanji-Katakana character-transitions in said stored character string, and identifying a character-transition that occurs at said located Kanji-Katakana character-transition.