Tjad Clark
22 April 2016
Allow this piece of equipment to become most handy within your life, and we mean MOST HANDY! Essentially taking some extra motor cycles off of your fingertips by allowing us to do most of your typing for you. With our predictive text algorithms we explore the trendiness of chat and provide you with the best fitting word that suits your provided hitherto sentence. Be prepared, be amazed.
You've just been introduced to typing, you're a frequent typer or even a typing queen, and yet you're still wanting to save time in typing those repetitive texts of yours that at times may seem a lousy or a tedious task. Our solution is to use NGrams in order to explore the trends in typing texts that allows us to complete your words for you.
We do this by exploring trends in text of Twitter, news and blog sources. We use Ngram models starting off with 4-grams making a best match on your last 4 typed words, and then when the model is in doubt, will naively backoff to using, Tri-gram and finally bi-gram models. This should certainly save you time in most of your typing between friends and family.
Using Hitherto is as simple as 1, 2, 3.
<shift> + <space> to use that prediction.Please feel free to play around and utilize our application https://tjad.shinyapps.io/hitherto/
Should you wish to know more about this application or report bugs, feel free to contact our developers on github