A Stochastic Prediction Interface for Urdu
Qaiser Abbas · International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications · 2014
This work lays down a foundation for text prediction of an inflected and under-resourced language Urdu.The interface developed is not limited to a T9 (Text on 9 keys) application used in embedded devices, which can only predict a word after typing initial characters.It is capable of predicting a word like T9 and also a sequence of word after a word in a continuous manner for fast document typing.It is based on Ngram language model.This stochastic interface deals with three N-gram levels from unary to ternary independently.The unigram mode is being in use for applications like T9, while the bigram and tri-gram modes are being in use for sentence prediction.The measures include a percentage of keystrokes saved, keystrokes until completion and a percentage of time saved during the typing.Two different corpora are merged to build a sufficient amount of data.The test data is divided into a test and a held out data equally for an experimental purpose.This whole exercise enables the QASKU system outperforms the FastType with almost 15% more saved keystrokes.