Reducing overdetections in a French symbolic grammar checker by classification

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. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.