On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > I really value having the autocompletion feature in LyX. I hope it can get >>> > an improved memory! >>> >>> Perhaps, prediction algorithms from Artificial Intelligence could help >>> with ranking the autocompletion suggestions. >> >> Ideally, of course, autocompletion should work already with the first >> keystroke in a document and produce ready-to-submit papers. >> >> Of course, that still leaves the author at the mercy of the (mostly) >> human reviewers... > > Ideally, of course, we would like to have less ironic and more > constructive LyX developers...
The idea of using machine learning algorithms to the problem of ranking text autocomplete suggestions is not, in fact, new; it has been applied to determine the suggestions of urls for Firefox/Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ml/autocomplete/ Paul
