1. A text entry system comprising: an auto-correcting keyboard region comprising a plurality of the characters of an alphabet, each of said characters having a contact location within said auto-correcting keyboard region, a word evaluation component which identifies at least one candidate object, and for any identified candidate object, evaluates said identified candidate object by calculating a matching metric; wherein when the word evaluation component calculates a matching metric value for a given word stem with respect to an initial sequence of contacts within an input sequence that ranks higher than a predetermined threshold, the word evaluation component evaluates remaining contacts of the input sequence with respect to at least one associated suffix that can be appended to said given word stem to form at least one inflected word, and wherein when the word evaluation component calculates a matching metric value for a given suffix that ranks higher than a second predetermined threshold, said suffix is appended to said word stem to form a completed word.
1. A text entry system comprising: an auto-correcting keyboard region comprising a plurality of the characters of an alphabet, each of said characters having a contact location within said auto-correcting keyboard region, a word evaluation component which identifies at least one candidate object, and for any identified candidate object, evaluates said identified candidate object by calculating a matching metric; wherein when the word evaluation component calculates a matching metric value for a given word stem with respect to an initial sequence of contacts within an input sequence that ranks higher than a predetermined threshold, the word evaluation component evaluates remaining contacts of the input sequence with respect to at least one associated suffix that can be appended to said given word stem to form at least one inflected word, and wherein when the word evaluation component calculates a matching metric value for a given suffix that ranks higher than a second predetermined threshold, said suffix is appended to said word stem to form a completed word. 14. The system of claim 1 , wherein for each character corresponding to a known location in the auto-correcting keyboard region, a region is predefined around one or a plurality of said known locations; wherein the distance between an input contact location falling within said predefined region and the known character location within said predefined region is calculated as a distance of zero; wherein the relative sizes of said predefined regions correspond to the relative frequencies of occurrence of the characters associated with the known locations within said predefined regions; and wherein said predefined region around the known location of a character corresponds to a displayed key on the touch screen.