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Why impossible? The rules for when to use each is well-defined. We know this is true, because *we can recognise when the apostrophe is used incorrectly". Yes
by antimagic 12y ago
Why impossible? The rules for when to use each is well-defined. We know this is true, because *we can recognise when the apostrophe is used incorrectly". Yes, you need to parse the sentence that contains the apostrophe, and yes, in some particularly odd sentences you can trip up a computer's understanding of the sentence's grammar, but current tech is capable of getting this right with very good accuracy.
- MereInterest 12y agoAny time I use the word "ill", I need to explicitly tell the auto-correct not to change it to "I'll", regardless of context. Also, given that "I see the house. I see its eaves." and "I see the house. I see it's tilted." have the same opening, I can't see how a computer could possibly decide correctly between the two.
- Rapzid 12y agoIt would be highly unusual to place "it's" before a noun.
- antimagic 12y agoYup, that's what I was getting at. Not that there aren't "difficult" cases to handle, for example: "It's foot then hand, Johnny, you keep moving the hand first" But those are rare, and I would forgive my computer for getting them wrong.
- MereInterest 12y agoHighly unusual, yes, but you need to have the full sentence available for parsing before you can make that decision. I would say that having a sentence change itself after having written part would be horrible for the user, and so autocorrect's knowledge is limited to what has been written before the questionable word, with no knowledge of what comes after.
- DanBC 12y agoI used to think that crowd-sourcing suggestions would be useful, but the it's / its mistake is so common that crowd-sourcing it would just contaminate the data. But still, how hard would it be to have an algorithm that hits 95% accuracy?