Next Word Prediction Using Deep Learning

Abstract

Next Word Prediction involves guessing the next word which is most likely to come after the current word. The system suggests a few words. A user can choose a word according to their choice from a list of suggested word by system. It increases typing speed and reduces keystrokes of the user. It is also useful for disabled people to enter text slowly and for those who are not good with spellings. Previous studies focused on prediction of the next word in different languages. Some of them are Bangla, Assamese, Ukraine, Kurdish, English, and Hindi. According to Census 2011, 43.63% of the Indian population uses Hindi, the national language of India. In this work, deep learning techniques are proposed to predict the next word in Hindi language. The paper uses Long Short Term Memory and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory as the base neural network architecture. The model proposed in this work outperformed the existing approaches and achieved the best accuracy among neural network based approaches on IITB English-Hindi parallel corpus.