Predictive text input for Openmoko

[Al Johnson]

On Monday 09 March 2009, Francis Tyers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was recommended to write to this list by PaulFert` from the #openmoko
> IRC channel.
>
> I'm interested in predictive text input for mobile phones, and came
> across Openmoko. I asked in the IRC channel and was pointed towards the
> Illume keyboard.
>
> This looks something like what I was thinking of, although it does error
> correction, not prediction, but that is much of a muchness.
>
> Basically, I'm wondering how I might be able to contribute dictionaries
> and / or word statistics to help expand the number of supported
> dictionaries. I'm mainly interested in Breton and Welsh, but have
> surface form dictionaries (in the form of morphological analysers[1])
> for a number of other "lesser used" languages.
>
> Any information or pointers to documentation would be gladly received.

The basic method of generating a dictionary for the illume keyboard is 
mentioned in the wiki [1], but doesn't include frequency information. The 
dictionary format has come up on the list a few times, including possible 
changes to the format. I _think_ it is still as described at the end of [2] 
but I'm not certain. There's an extended thread [3] discussing various 
dictionary approaches and how they may or may not work given different 
languages.

[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Keyboard_Debate#Illume_keyboard_2
[2] http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032210.html
[3] http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-January/040949.html