2022-12-04

Agenda

  • What is word prediction ?
  • Word prediction assistive technology (WPAT) features
  • How it works ?
  • WPAT suggested words in action!

What is word prediction ?

Word Prediction is an Assistive Technology tool for writing that suggests words as a child and adult types. If you’ve sent text messages with a smartphone, you’ve probably used it already.

Word prediction technology helps kids and adults who struggle with writing.

Word Prediction at glance

  • Word prediction is an assistive technology tool that suggests words while a child and adults types.

  • Kids and adults with writing issues can benefit from this technology.

  • You may have used word prediction on a smartphone or any device with internet connection.

Word prediction assistive technology (WPAT) features

  • Word Prediction Assistive Technology (WPAT) use the most common word used by internet users
  • WPAT uses three pre-analyzed word databases as source. Analyzed source information comes from the most popular inter sources like twitter, blogs, and news.
  • WPAT analyzes the entered sentence and based to the last two to four words it suggest the most probable ranked word.
  • WPAT suggest the next word in less than 10 milliseconds

How it works ?

Once the user enter the sentence, WPAT will start analyzing the words entered and will look for the next suggested words according the following workflow.

WPAT suggested words in action!

WPAT is accessible form any internet device, just using the shiny app; https://vicct.shinyapps.io/capstone/

The debug trace section will look for the next suggested word depending on the number of words entered in the sentence. WPAT will provide suggestions depending on the last words entered in the sentence. WPAT will provide information about the milliseconds used to look for the next suggested word.