Improving mobile multi-tap text entry for Arabic language
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| Title: | Improving mobile multi-tap text entry for Arabic language |
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| Authors: | Al-Radaideh, Qasem A.1 qasemr@yu.edu.jo, Masri, Kamal H.2 kamalo_cis@yahoo.com |
| Source: | Computer Standards & Interfaces. Jan2011, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p108-113. 6p. |
| Subjects: | Arabic language, Cell phones, Text messages, Distribution (Probability theory), Experimental design, Predictive control systems |
| Abstract: | Abstract: Classical mobile phone keypads which consist of 12 buttons are commonly used to write short text messages through two common methods, the multi-tap and the predictive text entry. For the Arabic language mobile keypads, all Arabic letters are distributed over the 8 buttons of the keypad where three or more letters share the same button. In this paper, a new text entry environment is proposed. The environment includes two proposed improved approaches for Arabic language messages to make the multi-tap text entry method faster and easier. The first approach is based on the idea of remapping the distribution of Arabic letters on the keypad according to the frequency of letters. In the second approach, a bi-Gram based method is used to predict the next letter to be typed automatically. The proposed approaches are evaluated using a corpus of 1514 real Arabic text messages. Several experiments were conducted to evaluate the proposed text entry environment. The results of the experiments have showed that using the proposed remapped keypad is faster and consumes less effort in comparison to the classical keypad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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