From pecher to pêcher... or pécher: Simplifying French Input by Accent Prediction
Pallavi Choudhury, Chris Quirk, Hisami Suzuki · 2011
In this paper we describe our approach to building a French text input system, in which no explicit typing of accents is required. This makes typing of French available to a wider range of keyboards and to occasional writers of the language. Our method is built on the noisy-channel model, and achieves 99.8 % characterlevel accuracy on the test data consisting of formal and casual writing styles. This system is part of a larger project of making text input easier for multiple languages, including those that have traditionally been the target of input methods (such as Chinese and Japanese) as well as phonetically based non-Roman script languages (such as Greek, Russian, and Indic languages). A demo of this system including these languages will be shown at the workshop. 1