Corpus studies in word prediction

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 195-202

  Trnka, Keith ^a   McCoy, Kathleen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpora; Language modeling; Statistical methods; Word prediction

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE MODELING; WORD PREDICTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 42149169117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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