Reducing overdetections in a French symbolic grammar checker by classification

  • Authors:
  • Fabrizio Gotti;Philippe Langlais;Guy Lapalme;Simon Charest;Éric Brunelle

  • Affiliations:
  • DIRO, Univ. de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada;DIRO, Univ. de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada;DIRO, Univ. de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada;Druide Informatique, Montréal, Québec, Canada;Druide Informatique, Montréal, Québec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We describe the development of an "overdetection" identifier, a system for filtering detections erroneously flagged by a grammar checker. Various families of classifiers have been trained in a supervised way for 14 types of detections made by a commercial French grammar checker. Eight of these were integrated in the most recent commercial version of the system. This is a striking illustration of how a machine learning component can be successfully embedded in Antidote, a robust, commercial, as well as popular natural language application.