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| Authored by: PJ on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 09:10 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: stegu on Sunday, April 14 2013 @ 06:15 AM EDT |
Fun to see that it was implemented in Emacs decades before smartphones became
ubiquitous. I suspect that a Japanese researcher would be more inclined to
having this idea, seeing how their native language uses similar multiple choice
text input functions to be useful on a computer. (Spell out words using a small
phonetic alphabet, then pick the word you meant from a list of words written in
a much larger ideographic alphabet.)
The only thing in the patent that might be slightly outside the scope of this
article is the sharing of the history list between applications. I don't read
Japanese, so I can't tell. The article seems to mention implementations in both
Excel and Emacs, and the algorithms seem to be the same across both, but I can't
make out whether it mentions explicitly the (obvious) extension that user
patterns observed in one application can be used to improve the user experience
in another application utilizing the same algorithm.
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