Are grammatical rules important?
Grammatical rules are useful in word prediction if you require assistance with building sentences. If you are competent at sentence building, then grammatical rules more often than not are a hindrance since they will sometimes remove the grammatically correct word you are looking for from the prediction list because it doesn’t fit with the grammatical rule set used by the prediction program. In general, we recommend you do not use grammatical rules because in a language as complicated as English, no set of rules can adequately describe the language and we have found our next word prediction algorithms to be more effective. How good is Aurora’s next word prediction To give you an illustration of how effective Aurora’s statistical analysis is: Aurora Prediction is trained on about 4 million characters in 12 english language novels. If you type in a word from one of those novels, you can follow long sections of the original novel text by typing 1 1 1 1… Even from the first novel we have
