[Corpora-List] English Grammar Checker

[Stella Tagnin]

Dear all,

I´m forwarding this message on behalf of a colleague of mine.

I believe anyone working with learner corpora might be able to help.

Best

Stella Tagnin
University of São Paulo - Brazil
 

 

On 6/12/07, CARLOS EDUARDO DANTAS DE MENEZES <cedmenezes at gmail.com> wrote:
  Dear all,

  I'm a developer of CoGrOO, a Grammar Checker to OpenOffice. Nowadays, we have a Brazilian-Portuguese checker.
  This is our site of CoGrOO 1.X (English and Portuguese text):


  http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal


  This is our site of CoGrOO 2.X (only Portuguese text, sorry): 


  http://cogroo.sourceforge.net/


  Statistics about project activity:


  http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=182075&ugn=cogroo 


  A paper about CoGrOO's architecture (English):


  http://cogroo.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/down/Doc/LREC_2006.pdf 


  I'm writing to this list because we are porting CoGrOO to English language; there is no really GOOD, free software, grammar checker to English language, and CoGrOO intends to supply this need.
  We need a help of linguists to:

  - Help us to  define what is the public target of this tool: foreigner or native speakers? Maybe both? 
  - Estimate top-100 mistakes of this public target.
  - Write simple rules, according to our templates, to detect the most of these mistakes.
  - Test rules in our prototype.
  - Refine rules.


  Please, who is interested to help this project, contact me. 

  Regards,

  Carlos Menezes 




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