Predictive Text Entry Method for Somali Language on Mobile Phone
Mahamed Daud, Vishal Goyal · 2015
To enter data into mobile phones, there are different data entry techniques that can be used like keyboards, stylus, soft keys, speech etc. It can be used these techniques to enter data into mobile phones which may be either in predictive format or nonpredictive format. Text prediction is a technique which predicts what the user wants to write. The user writes some characters and the system predicts the remained ones. Text prediction reduces the redundancy and makes the system more efficient because of time saving. In this research work, it was prepared text prediction model for Somali language. To extract the statistical information like the frequency of each word, 119923 Somali words was collected and analysed. This information was used to determine the n-gram model which is after how many characters the system starts prediction that was decided to be two, and to know priority of the words and the most frequently used one has the highest priority to predict. To check the accuracy of the text prediction system, an experiment was conducted and 92.83 accuracies were achieved.