Improving word prediction for augmentative communication by using idiolects and sociolects
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Word prediction, or predictive editing, has a long history as a tool for augmentative and assistive communication. Improvements in the state-of-the-art can still be achieved, for instance by training personalized statistical language models. We developed the word prediction system Soothsayer.1 The main innovation of Soothsayer is that it not The system is available as an interactive demo at http://soothsayer.cls.ru.nl/ and its source code is publicly available at https://https://github.com/Woseseltops/ soothsayer
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