Arabic-L:LING:Needs literature on Arabic grammar and spelling checkers, etc.

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1) Subject:Needs literature on Arabic grammar and spelling checkers,  
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Date: 26 Feb 2009
From:Andrew Freeman <andyf at u.washington.edu>
Subject:Needs literature on Arabic grammar and spelling checkers, etc.

Hello all,

                 I have settled on an MA thesis topic, which is to  
build and test a parser that flags spelling and grammar errors in  
Arabic language texts produced by second language learners.  As  
currently envisioned, the final prototype will contain a state of the  
art vowel recovery tool, segmenter, Part-of-Speech tagger, spell- 
checker and parser.  It will also contain an online dictionary  
containing the 3000 or so head words that a student is likely to need  
in her or his first three years of study at a university in the US.

                 Is anybody aware of any literature that documents the  
following issues?

1)      Common errors made by Anglophones learning Arabic.
2)      Prior art with Arabic grammar checkers.
3)      Prior art with Arabic spell checkers.
4)      Prior art with the use of grammar checkers and spell checkers  
in Computer assisted language learning.

Thank you,

Andy Freeman
andyf at u.washington.edu


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