Parsing for grammar and style checking
Gregor Thurmair · 1990
The following paper describes some basic problems which have to be tackled if a morphosyntactic parser is to be configured in a grammar and style checking environment. Whereas grammar checking has to deal with ill-formed input which by definition is outside the scope of a grammar, style checking has problems in grammar coverage and intentionality of style.To overcome these problems, a method is presented based on the METAL grammar formalism which allows for fallback rules, levelling and scoring mechanisms, and other features which can be used. It will be described what kinds of information and processing are needed to implement such checkers.Finally, some examples are given which illustrate the mode of operation of the method described.