An intellectual placement of chinese phonetic symbols on the keyboard of mobile phones

Abstract

With the continuing development of mobile telecommunications, a mobile phone usually contains multiple functions and features, such as e-mail sending capabilities, text messaging, notebooks, electronic dictionaries, and so on. We concern with the placement of Chinese phonetic symbols for an intellectual Chinese phonetic symbol input system in mobile phones. A good placement of Chinese phonetic symbols can efficiently reduce the typing time when Chinese characters are entered. Applying the genetic algorithm, we can easily find the appropriate placement of phonetic symbols on the keypads of mobile phones. As the experimental results show, our method is not only substantially better than the traditional Chinese phonetic symbol input system but is also better than the general placement of phonetic symbols used in an intellectual Chinese phonetic symbol input system.