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I'm not sure. Imagining the current iOS autocorrect for instance working on french and english at the same time would be a mess. or a mass, or messe, or mers, o

by hrktb 13y ago

I'm not sure. Imagining the current iOS autocorrect for instance working on french and english at the same time would be a mess. or a mass, or messe, or mers, or messes, or miss, or moss, or Messieurs. And now I feel like playing scrabble. And most IMEs already work with several languages in a way, since they use the sentence context coupled with a system and user dictionary that contains the most common and some set of arbitrary words from any language you want/use regularly enough to have the IME remember the words.

mtrimpe 13y ago
My comment referred to the typical Markov chain type word prediction, which is the mechanism behind the 'sentence context' you referred to in those custom IMEs. What I described is basically taking that mechanism and baking it into the standard OS without all the custom personalization options the IMEs offer and just offer a ready to use "English + OtherLang" option. I don't think iOS does anything like that, but there you can still reduce the threshold at which you'll auto-correct and get a significant improvement. Just goes to show that on all platforms there are still plenty of trade-offs to be explored.