Morphosyntactic correction in natural language interfaces
Jean Véronis · 1988
Morphosyntax cannot be simply ignored in natural-language man-machine dialogue since it constitutes an important part of the meaning. Nevertheless, troublesome side effects can arise when morphosyntactic errors are combined with other types of errors. We describe here an efficient means of handling quite complex combinations of typographical, phonographic and agreement errors in French, which are typical of C.A.I. users: a sentence as erroneous as les cotté adgassan à I'ippeauttainuz son perpndiqulère (!) will be perfectly recognized and translated into les côtés adjacents à l'hypoténuse sont perpendiculaires (the legs adjacent to the hypotenuse are perpendicular).