Tim Willis

Background

About Tim Willis

I am a Computational Linguistics / Artificial Intelligence expert and entrepreneur, and am hugely enthusiastic about applying Natural Language Processing to real-world challenges such as increasing productivity, simplifying information management, designing chatbots and more. I currently run my own company and am also interested in consultancy opportunities and partnerships. I have extensive experience conducting and applying research in academia and industry, with expertise in grammar, semantics and annotation of large databases of text. I commercialised my PhD research to create a powerful custom word prediction product, Flexpansion, that doubles specialist and technical typing speed on a touchscreen, saving professionals time. It is available for phones and tablets, and now smartwatches, using a novel, easy-to-use, patent-pending user interface I invented. Our apps overcome the single greatest hurdle in using mobile devices - slow text entry - with exceptional word prediction and autocorrect, and uniquely by expanding *any* reasonable abbreviation into full, hugely boosting your speed. No memorisation or prior training are needed - just choose shorthands as you go. Please see for more details, and for our smartwatch product. Flexpansion is very highly rated in its field, worldwide, on the Google Play app store, which we have achieved against companies 100 times our size. We are working on improving this further. We are keen to hear about new potential applications, partners, and investors, and welcome enquiries.