On Nov 30, 2008, at 5:50 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
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
Very interesting. Although using AI would be great, it is probably
icing on the cake relative to the simple idea, brought up by Stefan,
of having a rank list that is updated by the history of completions
chosen.
-Ivan
