An expert system for the teaching of English grammar

Author

Keong, Chan Chee

Author_Institution

Div. of Inf. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

fYear

1990

fDate

24-27 Sep 1990

Firstpage

722

Abstract

An expert system for the teaching of English grammar is written for a personal computer user, in the Turbo PROLOG language. It uses a context-free, recursive descent parser to implement its grammar checking facility. This expert system has a learning environment where the teacher is expected to teach the system the types of grammar it is to recognize. It also has expandable databases into which new words that the system is to know can easily be keyed in. In its checking mode, the system has the ability to check text files or individual sentences for grammatical errors. It is also able to create error files into which grammatical errors from the text file and their corresponding messages are stored

Keywords

PROLOG; computer aided instruction; context-free grammars; expert systems; natural languages; English grammar; Turbo PROLOG language; context-free parser; error files; expandable databases; expert system; grammar checking; grammatical errors; learning environment; personal computer; recursive descent parser; sentences; text files; Computer errors; Databases; Education; Error correction; Expert systems; Home computing; Microcomputers; Natural languages; User interfaces; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communication Systems, 1990. IEEE TENCON'90., 1990 IEEE Region 10 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-87942-556-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1990.152705

Filename

152705