A Survey on Thai Input Methods on Smartphones

Cholwich NATTEE

doi:10.1587/transinf.2013EDR0008

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A Survey on Thai Input Methods on Smartphones

Cholwich NATTEE

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Smartphones have become vital devices in the current on-the-go Thai culture. Typically, virtual keyboards serve as tools for text input on smartphones. Due to the limited screen area and the large number of Thai characters, the size of each button on the keyboard is quite small. This leads to character mistyping and low typing speed. In this paper, we present a typical framework of a Thai Input Method on smartphones which includes four processes; Character Candidate Generation, Word Candidate Generation, Word Candidate Display, and Model Update. This framework not only works with Thai, it works with other letter-based languages as well. We also review virtual keyboards and techniques currently used and available for Thai text input.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E97-D No.9 pp.2338-2345

Publication Date: 2014/09/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1361

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2013EDR0008

Type of Manuscript: SURVEY PAPER

Category: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining

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Cholwich NATTEE
Thammasat University

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Thai input method, virtual keyboard, smartphones, android keyboard, iOS keyboard, Ketmanee layout, Thai keyboard, mobile keyboard

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Cholwich NATTEE, "A Survey on Thai Input Methods on Smartphones" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E97-D, no. 9, pp. 2338-2345, September 2014, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2013EDR0008.
Abstract: Smartphones have become vital devices in the current on-the-go Thai culture. Typically, virtual keyboards serve as tools for text input on smartphones. Due to the limited screen area and the large number of Thai characters, the size of each button on the keyboard is quite small. This leads to character mistyping and low typing speed. In this paper, we present a typical framework of a Thai Input Method on smartphones which includes four processes; Character Candidate Generation, Word Candidate Generation, Word Candidate Display, and Model Update. This framework not only works with Thai, it works with other letter-based languages as well. We also review virtual keyboards and techniques currently used and available for Thai text input.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/transinf.2013EDR0008/_p

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