PLPrepare: A Grammar Checker for Challenging Cases

• Main Author: Hoyos, Jacob
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2021
• Subjects: Natural Language Processing; Dependency Parsing; Foreign Language Education; Arbitrary Cases; Rule-based Morphology Detection; Hybrid Grammar Checking; Computational Linguistics; Computer Sciences; Morphology; Slavic Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3898; https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5418&context=etd

This study investigates one of the Polish language’s most arbitrary cases: the genitive masculine inanimate singular. It collects and ranks several guidelines to help language learners discern its proper usage and also introduces a framework to provide detailed feedback regarding arbitrary cases. The study tests this framework by implementing and evaluating a hybrid grammar checker called PLPrepare. PLPrepare performs similarly to other grammar checkers and is able to detect genitive case usages and provide feedback based on a number of error classifications.