The manager of this project is Hans Uszkoreit and it lasted from January 1,1997 to March 31, 2000 .
A Grammar Checker is a program, or part of a program, that attempts to verify written text for grammatical correctness. Grammar checkers are most often implemented as a feature of a larger program, such as a word processor, but are also available as stand-alone application that can be activated from within programs that work with editable text. Some examples of Grammar Checkers are: Language Tool, Microsoft Word grammar checker.
The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence defines this reseach project as a project aimed at developing grammar and controlled language checking technologies using state-of-the-art natural language processing technologies.
This project, FLAG use two techniques in combination to provide enough information for reliable diagnosis and user-mediated correction of a broad set of errors.That set of errors is motivated by corpus investigation.
The two techniques are :
- Statical taggers and partial parsers
- Rule-based parsing
It is clear that grammar checkers are very useful. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t forget about some flaws in grammar checkers as it is very difficult for a machine to learn in a correct way a language such as english. They may miss important errors, for example missing preposition and sometimes they offer inaccurate corrections.
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- Grammar checker. (2009, June 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:40, June 7, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grammar_checker&oldid=294964099
- FLAG, A Flexible Language and Grammar Checker. (2000. March 31). In German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, by Hans Uszkoreit. Retrieved 17:05, June 15, 2009, from http://www.dfki.de/lt/project.php?id=Project_366&l=en
- Free Online Grammar Checker(2009). In Yourdictionary.com. Retrieved 14:54, June 14, 2009, from http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictionary-articles/free-online-grammar.html
- Language Tool Open Source Language Checker (2009).In Language Tool. Retrieved 14:59, June 14, 2009, from http://www.languagetool.org/
