LINGUIST List 20.1014

Sun Mar 22 2009

Qs: German Grammar Checker

Editor for this issue: Dan Parker <danlinguistlist.org>

        1.    Sabrina Wilske, German Grammar Checker
Message 1: German Grammar Checker
Date: 20-Mar-2009
From: Sabrina Wilske <swcoli.uni-saarland.de>
Subject: German Grammar Checker
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Dear linguists,

For work related to my PhD I am looking for free (maybe even open source)tools for grammar checking and error diagnosis in German.

I am aware of the LanguageTool Open Source language checker(www.languagetool.org) and of research prototypes as described inBerthold Crysmann; Nuria Bertomeu; Peter Adolphs; Daniel Flickinger;Tina Klüwer: Hybrid Processing for Grammar and Style Checking, InProceedings of COLING08andFortmann, Christian, Martin Forst (2004): An LFG grammar checker forCALL, In Proceedings of ICALL-2004.

However, the problems with these is, that their coverage is limitedand/or they are not readily available for use in other contexts.

Does anyone know of any other tools? We want to use it especially fordiagnosing German learner language.

We will summarize responses, thank you in advance,Sabrina Wilske and Magdalena Wolska--Sabrina WilskePhD student within International Research Training Group (IRTG)Language Technology and Cognitive Systems at Saarland UniversityEmail swcoli.uni-sb.dehttp://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~sw

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Computational Linguistics
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