NextWord is an application to predict the next word the user will type based on the previously typed words
It was developed as part of the JHU-Coursera Data Science Specialization
It used large text samples of Twitter, Blogs and News websites to create its prediction algorithm
How NextWord Prediction Algorithm works
NextWord algorithm is based in n-grams detection and matching
An n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech
NextWord ngrams are word sequences of 2, 3, 4 words
NextWord uses a n-gram corpus extracted from the internet (Twitter, Blogs and News) to identify the next word that will be typed by a user
NextWord normalizes the text to lower case, eliminates punctuation, whitespaces, numbers, URLs and stopwords (determinants, conjunctions, prepositions)
How to use NextWord
The NextWord App is easy to use
Type a message in the text box
Click on the bar that says: “Click here for the next word…”
Below the bar, NextWord will display all the words that were predicted as the next word to be typed
To restart, erase the message/text and type a new one.
