Yijue How and Min-Yen Kan
Optimizing SMS Entry (HCII 2005)
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•Allows completion of partially-spelled word
•Similar to ZiCorp’s eZiText
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•Our model:
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•Select w with highest conditional
probability given evidence from:
1. Current word’s key sequence
2. Previous word
•Display a single prediction only when confident
–Cycle through completions based on confidence
Predictive Word Completion
Total count of all bigrams with current key seq
Count of particular bigram fitting current key seq