Welcome to the ASK-IT Word Prediction Demonstrator
This web page demonstrates the ASK-IT online word prediction
service. When you select a textarea on this page and start typing,
the web-based word prediction service is started.
The demonstrator has been tested to work with Mozilla Firefox
version 1.5 (available at http://www.mozilla-europe.org).
It also works with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.
Note that JavaScript and CSS have to be enabled.
You can try the word prediction now or read more about the technical details.
If you have any comments or encounter problems concerning this
application please let us know. Your feedback
is most welcome and will be helpful for the further developement.
English word prediction
This textarea provides English word predictions.
Help
German word prediction
Dieses Textfeld liefert deutsche Wortvorhersagen.
Help
Greek word prediction
This textarea provides Greek word predictions.
Help
French word prediction
Cette zone de texte donne des prédictions en Français.
Help
Choose your prediction language
This textarea provides the word predictions for the language of your own choice.
Help
Technical details
AJAX
The word prediction is implemented with the AJAX web development
technique. More information on AJAX is available from
wikipedia.
Basic functionality
When a character is entered into the textarea, the content and language
settings of the textarea are sent to the prediction server. Based on
language specific dictionaries the most likely completions of the
current context are determined.
Proposals are presented to the right of the textarea. The list
contains at most ten proposal sorted according to probability. The
first proposal is the most likely.
A special symbol (mathematical not "¬") is displayed to
indicate that the suggested word ends with a blank character. The part
of a prediction that corresponds to the written beginning of a word is
highlighted in a different colour.
There are two ways to select a proposal. It can be selected by mouse
via a left click on a proposal. And it can be selected by hitting the
key combination "ALT + number of proposal". (Where 0 is used
to select proposal number 10.)
You can undo your last action by pressing "ALT + Backspace".
Smart punctuation
While typing text, the prediction application checks whether you typed
in a punctuation mark (" , . ; : ? !) or not. If blank charcters are
located before a punctuation mark the application will automatically
remove them and place one blank character behind the mark.
Web-based Word Prediction
