technique to enter text using a mobile phone keypad (T9 dictionary-based disambiguation)

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

John Machin:
> 2. All responses so far seem to have missed a major point in the
> research paper quoted by the OP: each word has a *frequency* associated
> with it. When there are multiple choices (e.g. "43" -> ["he", "if",
> "id", ...]), the user is presented with the choices in descending
> frequency order.

I haven't missed it; if you use the instrumeted PAQ compressor
approach, you gain the frequency information and more :-)

Bye,
bearophile