Talk:Word completion

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I removed this material for the reasons stated. meatclerk 05:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• The artice it references clearly states that it should not be cited.

Many people believe that word completion is a good idea for predictive text systems. While the idea is appealing in principle, it works quite poorly in practice. Using word completion for general text entry (as opposed to selected from a short list as in the case of selecting urls in browsers) causes confusion and increased mental processing time, which easily outweighs the advantages of reduced keystrokes. Some early work on this subject was done by Dunlop and Crossan, 2000.

A citation to the published version of the paper is now included.

• Too specific an example to be useful

Word completion is often referred to as tab completion, as in some software such as Bash the completion of a string is invoked by hitting the tab key.