Re: Can a grammar checker do this

[Brad Jensen <brad -at- elstore -dot- com>]

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From: "John Cornellier" <tw -at- cornellier -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Can a grammar checker do this


> <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com> wrote:
> >a linguist* had the idea of using a
> >computer to assess the grammatical correctness of a sentence by
> >searching for it a database of pre-existing published writing

I just suggested a similar thing but more structured to someone who writes
manual translation support software (that's what I call it, the insider's
name means nothing to me).

Write your software so that every translated phrase goes into a common
database shared by thousands of translators working on different texts all
over the internet. Then suggest translation for a phrase using the most
common previous translations.

It's machine translation without the machine.

Brad Jensen
www.eufrates.com


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