Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

[Sanne te Meerman <sanne opensourceadvies nl>]

Hi all,

I hope we can keep this thread for the purpose of the pre-conference. I 
know it's ever tempting to start a technical discussion about GNOME 
features etc. but I'd like to keep this thread for the purpose of the 
Pre-conference ok?

Thank you,
Sanne

Matteo Vescovi schreef:
> > 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