Automatically expand abbreviated typed text
It is useful to automatically expand abbreviated typed text so that people with reduced dexterity need not strain themselves in typing out the whole text but instead only type in the abbreviations.
Discussion by Disabilities
People with reduced dexterity aid from this feature by only typing in the abbreviations of the text instead of the whole text
This feature aids people with cognitive, language and learning disabilities to only type abbreviations of the text instead of the whole text
Existing Products
Related Research and Papers
- Informing Flexible Abbreviation Expansion for Users with Motor Disabilities(link is external)- Tim Willis, Helen Pain, Shari Trewin, Stephen Clark
- Text prediction systems: a survey(link is external)- Nestor Garay-Vitoria, Julio Abascal
- Abbreviated text input using language modeling(link is external)- Stuart M. Shieber and Rani Nelken
- Sentence reconstruction using word ambiguity resolution (link is external)- Steven S. Skiena, Harald Rau
- A study of methods for systematically abbreviating english words and names(link is external)- Charles P. Bourne, Donald F. Ford
- Data processing apparatus and method for converting words to abbreviations, converting abbreviations to words, and selecting abbreviations for insertion into text(link is external)- Thomas C. Mielenhausen