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Design and Evaluation of Soft Keyboards for TeluguAuthors: V B Sowmya,Vasudeva Varma Conference: "6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing" (ICON-2008), Pune, India. Date: 2009-02-07 Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/60 AbstractTelugu is the official language of Andhra Pradesh state and one of the widely spoken languages in the world. However, there is no standard input method, which has a widespread use among Telugu users on computers. In this paper, we describe the design of Telugu soft keyboards, which are based on a set of design principles. We also evaluate these designs along with existing designs and compare their performances. Evaluation is done by estimating the learning curve for each keyboard in a longitudinal study.The speeds of typing of individual keyboards were calculated in words per minute, for every session and are compared against each other. Our results were also found to be statistically significant. The results showed that one of our designs performed better over all the other designs tested both in terms of text entry speed as well as the learning rate. Centre for Search and Information Extraction Lab |
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