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E.g. T9 puts 4 letters on '9', presumably a good choice as 'X' and 'Y' are rare. Would it be worth it to shift the 'V' from '8' to '9'. '3' has 'D' and 'E' on the same key, maybe move the 'D' to '2' ?
I don't think this is very insightful. Using the first half of books for training data and the second half for testing data is still training the model specifically for these texts and authors. Not quite as bad as testing on the training data, but not great.
For this task, I was primarily interested in whether the task would work at all. My assumption is that given we can optimise for these texts, we could optimise for more representative datasets, too. Perhaps you think this is a weak assumption?
Do you think testing on a sample of totally different texts from different authors would be more convincing?
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This one is fun. Maybe one optimisation worth checking is what's possible if you have to stay alphabetical. E.g. T9 puts 4 letters on '9', presumably a good choice as 'X' and 'Y' are rare. Would it be worth it to shift the 'V' from '8' to '9'. '3' has 'D' and 'E' on the same key, maybe move the 'D' to '2' ?
Pretty cool read. My biggest problem with T9word is Spelling. If you misspell something on a full keyboard, the other person may be able to ges by sounding it out. T9word would throw out a word that would be no where near what you want. 'Ges' would become 'her' and the other user would never think 'guess' was the intended word. My 2nd biggest problem with T9word is you need to look at the screen to verify the word yo…
As I understand it, one of the big advantages of T9 had over other, more sophisticated forms of predictive text is that each word in the dictionary can be encoded in close to 1 byte. Given the constraints faced at the time, T9 feels to me like it is close to a local optimimum.
Awesome research! I was just thinking the other day, about how a qwerty layout for T9 might have been easier and more efficient. Cool to see something even better. A little off-topic, but this 6-button keyboard format looks perfect for my dream device. I take a lot of walks. I often listen to an audio book while I do so. I also frequently get texts, or hear something in the book I may want to write down. I've always…
the whole predictive word thing was something pretty much alien to me.