Fazly and Hirst Abstract

• Afsaneh Fazly and Graeme Hirst.
  ``Testing the efficacy of part-of-speech information in word completion.''
  Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Budapest, April 2003.

We investigate the effect of incorporating syntactic information into a word-completion algorithm. We introduce two new algorithms that combine part-of-speech tag trigrams with word bigrams, and evaluate them with a testbench constructed for the purpose. The results show a small but statistically significant improvement in keystroke savings for one of our algorithms over baselines that use only word n-grams.

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