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Any article like this for grammar correction? I've been interested to know why grammar checking and corrections can't be more accurate.
by WhitneyLand 10y ago
Any article like this for grammar correction?
I've been interested to know why grammar checking and corrections can't be more accurate.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoAn open source grammar project written by CMU with LGPL license and links to current and future research: http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar
- Retra 10y agoEnglish text has an astonishing number of ambiguities and non-grammatical idioms.
- xapata 10y agoThe logic would be quite similar. The dataset would be much larger. For grammar, you'd need to go for trigrams at least, and likely 4-grams and 5-grams. Maybe much further for complex structures. To reduce the dimensionality you might start bucketing some words by part of speech.
- jomamaxx 10y ago"I've been interested to know why grammar checking and corrections can't be more accurate." It's because there is no such a thing as 'grammar' :) There is no such a thing as 'language' :) Ok, I misrepresented that a little - but there is no such thing as a 'word list of all the English words and proper names'. And there definitely no set of clear grammatical rules for English. For some languages - such as German - the rules are more precise, but even then. So what you end up with is a game of probability and a lot of risk of 'over-correction' (beta errors). Context matters a lot as well - multilingual speakers, casual typers. Go to a rap video on youtube and look at the comments. People are arguably not even writing English.