Prediction by partial matching

Imagine you have a little piggy bank and you want to guess what kind of coins are inside it. You don't want to look inside, but you have a good memory and you remember seeing some coins before. Prediction by partial matching is like trying to guess what coins are inside the piggy bank by remembering what kind of coins you've seen before.

Let's say you remember seeing a lot of quarters before. You might guess that there are a lot of quarters in the piggy bank. But you also remember seeing some dimes and nickels. So you might guess that there are also some dimes and nickels in the piggy bank.

Prediction by partial matching works the same way. It tries to guess what comes next in a sequence based on what has come before. Just like you remembered seeing coins before and used that to guess what might be in the piggy bank, prediction by partial matching looks at the patterns of letters in a sentence or text and uses that to guess what might come next.

For example, if you're reading a sentence that says, "The cat sat on the," prediction by partial matching might guess that the next word is "mat" because it has seen that pattern before in other sentences. It's like trying to complete a puzzle by fitting the pieces together based on what we have seen before.

So, prediction by partial matching is a way of trying to guess what comes next in a sequence by remembering similar sequences that we've seen before. It's like trying to solve a puzzle based on what we already know.