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Intelligent grammar checking for CALL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2021

Cornelia Tschichold
Cornelia Tschichold*
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Department of English, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Abstract

Grammar checkers are not reliable enough yet to be used in CALL programs. Their rate of overflagging is still much too high for learners of a foreign language. CALL programs, however, could profit greatly from the incorporation of a grammar checker if this could provide the option of responding more intelligently to students’ input. Several strategies are proposed to make grammar checkers more acceptable for CALL developers, among them adapting the lexicon and the parser in the grammar checker.

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ReCALL , Volume 11 , Issue S1: Natural Language Processing In Computer-Assisted Language Learning , May 1999 , pp. 5 - 11
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1999

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