Grammar checker documentation

Overview

Documentatino and tutorials

• A step-by-step explanation of the grammarchecker components
• Grammar checker tutorial (slightly outdated, but useful)

Bacground documents

• Brief tour de Lingsoft Swedish Grammar Checker in MS Office
• Finnish grammar checker categories

Compiling and processing commands

• Compiling tools for grammarchecker development
• Commands For Grammar Checker Developers (commandline, LO)
• Preprocessor specification

Testing

• Overview of testing and development approaches
• Principles of manual error markup
• Developer pipeline for preparing error annotated text for testing
• Simple script to insert curly brackets
• Commands for grammarchecker testing
• Commands for extracting sentences for precision testing from text

Ideas for further development

• Extended proofing, grammarchecking, dictionary, you-name-it tool

Grammar checkers for individual languages

Within the Giellalt infrastructure grammarcheckers are developed to a varying degree for the following languages (the llinks lead to documentation pages):

• Faroese
• Inari Saami
• Lule Saami
• North Saami (see also this page)
• Norwegian Bokmål
• South Saami

Installation for practical use

The grammarcheckers may be installed as described on the grammarchecker installation page.