Predictive text entry using syntax and semantics
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Summary, in English
Most cellular telephones use numeric keypads, where texting is supported by dictionaries and frequency models. Given a key sequence, the entry system recognizes the matching words and proposes a rank-ordered list of candidates. The ranking quality is instrumental to an effective entry.
This paper describes a new method to enhance entry that combines syntax and language models. We first investigate components to improve the ranking step: language models and semantic relatedness. We then introduce a novel syntactic model to capture the word context, optimize ranking, and then reduce the number of keystrokes per character (KSPC) needed to write a text. We finally combine this model with the other components and we discuss the results.
We show that our syntax-based model reaches an error reduction in KSPC of 12.4% on a Swedish corpus over a baseline using word frequencies. We also show that bigrams are superior to all the other models. However, bigrams have a memory footprint that is unfit for most devices. Nonetheless, bigrams can be further improved by the addition of syntactic models with an error reduction that reaches 29.4%.
This paper describes a new method to enhance entry that combines syntax and language models. We first investigate components to improve the ranking step: language models and semantic relatedness. We then introduce a novel syntactic model to capture the word context, optimize ranking, and then reduce the number of keystrokes per character (KSPC) needed to write a text. We finally combine this model with the other components and we discuss the results.
We show that our syntax-based model reaches an error reduction in KSPC of 12.4% on a Swedish corpus over a baseline using word frequencies. We also show that bigrams are superior to all the other models. However, bigrams have a memory footprint that is unfit for most devices. Nonetheless, bigrams can be further improved by the addition of syntactic models with an error reduction that reaches 29.4%.
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
37-48
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT '09)
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
- Computer Science
Status
Published