Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

[Matteo Vescovi <matteo vescovi yahoo co uk>]

> 4. Improvements to Caribou which are not only switch access but also 
> addition of text prediction techniques for Spanish. It has been 
> contracted to WARP.

Hi,

I would like to humbly suggest the use of presage as a predictive text 
engine to add text prediction functionality to caribou.

Presage is an intelligent predictive text entry system. Presage 
generates predictions by modelling natural language as a combination of 
redundant information sources. Presage computes probabilities for words 
which are most likely to be entered next by merging predictions 
generated by the different predictive algorithms.

Presage is:
- intelligent (multiple language models/predictive algorithms, remembers 
context, expands abbreviations)
- fast
- adaptable (learns while predicting, can be trained)
- multilingual
- cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS X, Solaris, Maemo, etc.)
- free software (GPL)
- extensible
- configurable

To see presage in action, check out this short demo of gprompter, a 
predictive text editor powered by presage:
http://www.vimeo.com/11355097

The pyprompter and pypresagemate applications included in the presage 
distribution tarball provide examples on how to use presage python binding.

For more information, please visit http://presage.sourceforge.net


Cheers,
- Matteo Vescovi