860541 - [keyboard] if input is a valid word, prediction engine must suggest it

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[David Flanagan [:djf]]

It is important for auto-correction that we don't correct words that are real words. So the prediction engine needs to tell us if the user's input is a complete word on its own.  It doesn't always do this, though.

The input "ill" produces suggestions "illegal", "Illinois" and "illness" but not "ill" itself.

(I don't know if we should include a bloom filter for very low frequency words that we don't want to store in the DAG but that we still want to check for? That might be nice but is probably out of scope for now.)

Comment 1

[Mike Lee [:mlee]]

Adding whiteboard tags for tracking via srumbu.gs.

Comment 2

[David Flanagan [:djf]]

Preemptively asking for leo+ all the bugs blocking the keyboard auto-correct umbrella bug 797170.

Comment 3

[Joe Cheng [:jcheng] (please needinfo)]

seem like a product/UX decision whether we need auto-correct in 1.1

Comment 4

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

Chris is driving keyboard improvement decisions.

Comment 5

[David Flanagan [:djf]]

Resolving this invalid. The premise in the first comment is not correct: sometimes we do want to auto correct input that is a real word.  "ill" is a word, but we want to auto-correct it to "I'll".