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Syntactic error detection and correction in date expressions using finite-state transducers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

ARANTZA DÍAZ DE ILARRAZA ,
KOLDO GOJENOLA ,
MAITE ORONOZ  and
IÑAKI ALEGRIA
ARANTZA DÍAZ DE ILARRAZA
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque CountryP.O. box 649, E-20080 Donostia, the Basque Country, Spain emails: a.diazdeilarraza@ehu.es, koldo.gojenola@ehu.es, maite.oronoz@ehu.es, i.alegria@ehu.es
KOLDO GOJENOLA
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque CountryP.O. box 649, E-20080 Donostia, the Basque Country, Spain emails: a.diazdeilarraza@ehu.es, koldo.gojenola@ehu.es, maite.oronoz@ehu.es, i.alegria@ehu.es
MAITE ORONOZ
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque CountryP.O. box 649, E-20080 Donostia, the Basque Country, Spain emails: a.diazdeilarraza@ehu.es, koldo.gojenola@ehu.es, maite.oronoz@ehu.es, i.alegria@ehu.es
IÑAKI ALEGRIA
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque CountryP.O. box 649, E-20080 Donostia, the Basque Country, Spain emails: a.diazdeilarraza@ehu.es, koldo.gojenola@ehu.es, maite.oronoz@ehu.es, i.alegria@ehu.es
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Abstract

This paper presents a set of experiments for the detection and correction of syntactic errors, exploring two alternative approaches. The first one uses an error grammar which combines a robust morphosyntactic analyser and two groups of finite-state transducers (one for the description of syntactic error patterns and the other for the correction of the detected errors). We have also experimented an alternative approach using a positive date grammar where deviations are detected by applying edit-distance techniques. The system has been tested on a corpus of real texts which contained both correct and incorrect sentences. Although the experiment was limited to one language, the results show that attainable performance is not the only criterion for preferring one solution over another.

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Natural Language Engineering , Volume 17 , Special Issue 2: Finite-State Methods and Models in Natural Language Processing , April 2011 , pp. 145 - 161
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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