Techniques for predictive input method editors

摘要

A computer-implemented technique is presented. The technique can include receiving, at a computing device comprising one or more processors, a first input from a user, the first input including one or more first characters in a first language. The technique can provide for suggestion of potential transliterations to a second language of potential words beginning with the one or more first characters. The technique can present the potential transliterations in either an off-the-spot input configuration or an inline input configuration. The user can then select one of the potential transliterations. The technique can also provide the one or more first characters as an additional or partial word as a potential selection for the user. In this manner, the user can also select the exact one or more first characters that were input to the computing device.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
obtaining, at a computing system having a display and one or more processors, one or more source characters in a source language; obtaining, by the computing system, a plurality of target words in a target language representing potential transliterations of a plurality of source words from the source language, each of the plurality of source words beginning with the one or more source characters; obtaining, by the computing system, a selected target word having a highest likelihood that (i) a specific source word corresponding to the selected target word is an appropriate source word beginning with the one or more source characters and (ii) the selected target word is an appropriate transliteration of the specific source word; outputting, in a first area of the display, the selected target word; and outputting, in a second area of the display, (i) a remainder of the plurality of target words and corresponding indications of their relative likelihoods and (ii) the one or more source characters and a corresponding indication of a lowest relative likelihood.