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GramCheck: a grammar and style checker

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This paper presents a grammar and style checker demonstrator for Spanish and Greek native writers developed within the project GramCheck. Besides a brief grammar error typology for Spanish, a linguistically motivated approach to detection and diagnosis is presented, based on the generalized use of PROLOG exteusions to highly typed unification-based grammars. The demonstrator, currently including full coverage for agreement errors and certain head-argument relation issues, also provides correction by means of an analysis-transfer-synthesis cycle. Finally, future extensions to the current system are discussed.

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        COLING '96: Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
        August 1996
        600 pages
        • Program Chair:
        • J. Tsujii

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        • Published: 5 August 1996

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