Language modeling for soft keyboards

  • Joshua Goodman ,
  • Gina Venolia ,
  • Keith Steury ,
  • Chauncey Parker

IUI '02: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces |

Published by ACM

Publication

Language models predict the probability of letter sequences. Soft keyboards are images of keyboards on a touch screen for input on Personal Digital Assistants. When a soft keyboard user hits a key near the boundary of a key position, the language model and key press model are combined to select the most probable key sequence. This leads to an overall error rate reduction by a factor of 1.67 to 1.87. An extended version of this paper [4] is available.