Chauncey R. Parker

Language modeling for soft keyboards

Language models predict the probability of letter sequences. Soft keyboards are images of keyboards on a touch screen for input on Personal Digital Assistants. When a soft keyboard user hits a key near the boundary of a key position, the language model and key press model are combined to select the most probable key sequence. This leads to an overall error rate reduction by a factor of 1.67 to 1.87. An extended version of this paper [4] is available.

Operant Theory of Personality

The term personality has considerable meaning as used in our everyday lives and in psychological theory. However, the operant approach leads us to reject the concept of personality as “a thing” while providing an understanding of personality in its deepest sense. We believe this analysis has many practical implications and avoids some of the pitfalls that often occur in nonoperant approaches. Because the operant perspective is counterintuitive to many people, we hope the reader will keep an open mind as we present its ideas. You may come to agree that there actually are a number of valid ways to explain what we experience and observe around us.