Software, search engine and forum help for better grammar
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:30 pm
I have same proposals about better grammar checker software. Or more precisely, more effective forum help with assistance of grammar checker software and some grammar search engines.
1. That this (or any other) grammar forum has also spell checker (SC) and grammar checker (GC).
2. When it happens that SC or GC finds error, but it is not error or it does not find error, but it is error, Native english teacher (ET) (on this forum) correct SC or GC.
3. If some sentences are correct (because ET wrote it), he assigns them and they appears in some corpus.
4. Besides correct sentence, words for grammar elements of this sentence can be written beside it. So we can use some search engine, which does not search only words, but also grammar elements.
5. Grammar is to much complicated that grammar software can be enough. There are necessary also big database (or grammar corpus) and elements.
6. One way of usage: One non-native person writes an article, then he enters these sentences in this search engine. (not only words, but also grammar elements of sentence). Then this search engine finds sentences with similar structure or with similar words. Beside the found sentences, evaluation of correctness of this sentence is written also.
I propose that we give same proposals, and maybe someone (or more people) will have energy to realize this. A good plan is half of success.
But, I did not yet test some grammar software, except in MS Word. I know also http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ Maybe some proposed things are already done?
1. That this (or any other) grammar forum has also spell checker (SC) and grammar checker (GC).
2. When it happens that SC or GC finds error, but it is not error or it does not find error, but it is error, Native english teacher (ET) (on this forum) correct SC or GC.
3. If some sentences are correct (because ET wrote it), he assigns them and they appears in some corpus.
4. Besides correct sentence, words for grammar elements of this sentence can be written beside it. So we can use some search engine, which does not search only words, but also grammar elements.
5. Grammar is to much complicated that grammar software can be enough. There are necessary also big database (or grammar corpus) and elements.
6. One way of usage: One non-native person writes an article, then he enters these sentences in this search engine. (not only words, but also grammar elements of sentence). Then this search engine finds sentences with similar structure or with similar words. Beside the found sentences, evaluation of correctness of this sentence is written also.
I propose that we give same proposals, and maybe someone (or more people) will have energy to realize this. A good plan is half of success.
But, I did not yet test some grammar software, except in MS Word. I know also http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ Maybe some proposed things are already done?