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 See Also: [[Gaia/System/Keyboard/IME/Latin/Prediction_%26_Auto_Correction]]
+We serialize a dictionary Ternary Search Tree, along with supporting metadata and auxiliary data structures,
+into a compact binary blob for the prediction engine to consume.
 The [https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/keyboard/js/imes/latin/dictionaries/xml2dict.py xml2dict.py] script
-processes the word list, generates the TST along with supporting metadata and auxiliary data structures, and
+is responsible for generating the binary blob. The format of the blob is described in this article.
-serializes it into a compact binary blob, which is written as the *.dict file, to be unserialized and used by
-the predictions engine.
 == Header ==