Correcting erroneous N+N structures in the productions of French users of English

Marie Garnier

France

Université Toulouse Le Mirail ; Université Paul Sabatier,

Equipe Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes

Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse

Submitted: 07/30/2021

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Accepted: 07/30/2021

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Published: 03/22/2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2012.16050
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NLP, grammar checking, N N structures, error analysis

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This research was not funded

Abstract:

This article presents the preliminary steps to the implementation of detection and correction strategies for the erroneous use of N+N structures in the written productions of French-speaking advanced users of English. This research is carried out as part of the grammar checking project CorrecTools, in which errors are detected and corrected using linguistic-based NLP techniques. We use information from comprehensive and student grammars as well as the results of linguistic research in order to identify a set of constraints on the formation of N+N structures. We use these constraints to propose a classification of the N+N errors found in our corpus and design detection and correction strategies for each error type.
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