Qaiser Abbas

Work place: Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, 78457, Germany

E-mail: qaiser.abbas@uni-konstanz.de

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Research Interests: Natural Language Processing

Biography

Qaiser Abbas. Did master in Computer Science from NUCES (National University of Computer and Emerging Science), Lahore, Pakistan. Going to complete my doctorate in Computational Linguistics or Natural Language Processing from University of Konstanz, Germany in August 2014. Working as a research assistant in University of Konstanz, Germany. Working as a lecturer in University of Sargodha, Pakistan at Department of Computer Science, since 2003. The detailed profile along with the research work can be seen on the following URL http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/abbas.

Author Articles
A Stochastic Prediction Interface for Urdu

By Qaiser Abbas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2015.01.09, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2014

This work lays down a foundation for text prediction of an inflected and under-resourced language Urdu. The interface developed is not limited to a T9 (Text on 9 keys) application used in embedded devices, which can only predict a word after typing initial characters. It is capable of predicting a word like T9 and also a sequence of word after a word in a continuous manner for fast document typing. It is based on N-gram language model. This stochastic interface deals with three N-gram levels from unary to ternary independently. The uni-gram mode is being in use for applications like T9, while the bi-gram and tri-gram modes are being in use for sentence prediction. The measures include a percentage of keystrokes saved, keystrokes until completion and a percentage of time saved during the typing. Two different corpora are merged to build a sufficient amount of data. The test data is divided into a test and a held out data equally for an experimental purpose. This whole exercise enables the QASKU system outperforms the FastType with almost 15% more saved keystrokes.

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