[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Machin: > > 2. All responses so far seem to have missed a major point in the > > research paper quoted by the OP: each word has a *frequency* associated > > with it. When there are multiple choices (e.g. "43" -> ["he", "if", > > "id", ...]), the user is presented with the choices in descending > > frequency order. > > I haven't missed it; if you use the instrumeted PAQ compressor > approach, you gain the frequency information and more :-) >
I didn't comment on that before because: (1) I thought it sounded like a tool in search of a problem -- the problem being to produce a user interface that meets conflicting goals (few keystrokes and few mistakes and minimal hurl-the-device-out-of-the-window frustrations); compression of the dictionary is of course desirable but I wouldn't have thought that that should have been foremost in the design process. (2) Googling for instrumen?ted PAQ compress(or|ion) yielded nothing that seemed relevant -- can you supply a link or two? Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
