[lingu-dev] Relations between spell checking and grammar

[Luke Myers]

   There has been much discussion lately regarding variations in the 
forms of word as the context (gender and number) change.  It has been 
pointed out that not all words follow all of the rules.  For example, 
coys is not the plural of coy.  I do not fail to see the amount of work 
that would be needed to do what I am about to propose.  This is a 
serious undertaking, but should not be refused because of the required 
work.  I suggest that the dictionary files are modified so that they 
contain flags for allowed parts of speech.  Each part of speech would 
have a rule set defined for each language.  Coy would be marked with a 
set of flags that would be read as "only to be used as an adjective."  
It would take on modifications for adjectives but not the plural endings 
and other changes used for nouns (coy-s).
   As of yet, my grammar checker does very little.  As I have said 
before, I intend to build my grammar checker based on two principles: 
(1) word order, and (2) verb conjugation.  At present, my program can 
only conjugate the verbs.  I would appreciate feedback on or patches to 
the code (or feedback on the format of the language files).  Most plans 
I've seen for other grammar checkers also depend on word orders.  
Certain types of phrases are constructed using set rules.  The checker 
would break down the sentence into clauses and (if possible) phrases 
using punctuation and check whether the sentence is constructed 
correctly with the rules set out for each phrase type.

Regards,
Luke Myers
Project Lead, ConjuGNU Grammar Checking
http://conjugnu.sourceforge.net/download/nightly/4.0/
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