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Sometimes long complex English sentences can be very confusing to me, especially in finding the verb in there. When two or three consecutive words have differen
by rogeryu 11y ago
Sometimes long complex English sentences can be very confusing to me, especially in finding the verb in there. When two or three consecutive words have different grammatical meaning, and can be used in different grammatical meanings, it can become very confusing if English is not your mother tongue. In that case, color coding (or bold / italic / underscore) could help a lot. But for a word processor to do that, it has to understand grammar...
- ntoshev 11y agoI've tried part-of-speech tagging and subjectively it doesn't seem to help much. POS taggers for English are a solved problem, so it can be done automatically, but for prototyping I tried marking up some text myself. Indeed what helped the most were the verbs (vs other parts of speech), but it still didn't seem to be worth doing. Also marginally helpful was to delimit noun / verb phrases with 2 spaces instead of one.