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Making a Grammar Checker with Autocorrect Options Using NLP Tools

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How to cite: Bucea Manea Tonis, R.; Beteringhe, A. Making a Grammar Checker with Autocorrect Options Using NLP Tools. Preprints 2023, 2023081640. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1640.v2 Bucea Manea Tonis, R.; Beteringhe, A. Making a Grammar Checker with Autocorrect Options Using NLP Tools. Preprints 2023, 2023081640. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1640.v2

Abstract

Our natural language approach concerns syntactic analysis using a dedicated Javascript library - wink-nlp - and semantic analysis based on Prolog programming language, facilitated by another Javascript library - tau-prolog - that allows defining logical programs, declaring rules and checking for goals inside Javascript language. Firstly, our program splits the original text into sentences, than into tokens and identifies each part of the sentence, dynamically maps entities into Prolog rules, then check the spelling accordingly to the Definite Clause Grammar (DCG) by querying the pre-defined program for initial goals (the sentence itself). Basically, we let the parser infer its own rules from the syntactic point of view, then check the grammar from a semantic perspective against the DCG inside the same work flow or pipeline of steps.The provided article combine the usage of wink-nlp and tau-prolog packages for natural language processing (NLP) and understanding (NLU), and demonstrates the need of a supplementary logic layer based on beta reductions over lambda expressions.

Keywords

grammar; natural language; logic programming; syntactic analysis; lambda calculus.

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Logic

Comments (1)

Comment 1
Received: 25 August 2023
Commenter: Radu BUCEA-MANEA-ȚONIȘ
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Comment: We have added a semantic layer to the parser based on lambda calculus. The parsing process is now a sequence of steps representing beta reductions of intermediary terms (i.e. redex). We have also extended the Results and Discussion sections with dynamically generated auto-correct options and made some observations and assumptions regarding the parser's lexicon. We have checked the text according to English language spelling and grammar and updated the article's Abstract, Keywords and Bibliography sections.
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