Grammar checker meeting

Nov. 11, 2013, Fran & Sjur

• Sjur to test that the code in gramchk compiles

Pending things:

• Stabilise the layout of the data. What we have works, do we need any more files ?
  • a bit early, we need to experiment more with the actual features we need
  • at least we need a normative generator for the suggestions, possibly with dialect tags
• Should we use a zip file, or just a flat directory layout. What should be the file names ?
  • zip file for ease of distribution
  • directly read the zip file as for the speller
  • suffix: .zgram
  • use an index file as for the speller
• Try and develop the error.xml file a bit more:
  • Add translations
  • Check if it is sufficient
• Tokenisation
  • move the sentence splitting code from voikko core to language code
  • do sentence splitting in CG, for language-dependent capitalisation errors and sentence boundary definitions
  • also word-level tokenisation would need to be moved to the language code, preferably by the lookup tool
    • either: extract list of punctuation from fst - Fran if lexc doesn’t work out
    • or: encode optional punctuation in LexC - Sjur

• Code note: sentence/Sentence.cpp

• Suggestions.

Some existing tools and resources:

• [http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/lightproof-editor]
• [http://libreoffice.hu/2011/12/08/grammar-checking-in-libreoffice/]

• [http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-libreoffice-extensions-to-help-you-catch-grammar-problems/]

• On/off interface for individual error checks
  • talk to Harri about this – probably wants to do the same for Finnish
  • grouping errors into code - type
  • perhaps use the settings dialog box for the extension to manage this.

Integration plan:

• LibreOffice (OpenOffice?)
• MacOSX grammar/speller API
• MS Office - probably through a VB or .Net wrapper (true Office integration is blocked)

Try to lobby MS to allow grammar checkers etc for Greenlandic, Sámi (and others?)