Detecting Grammatical Errors in Text using a Ngram-based Ruleset

Abstract — Applications like word processors and other writing tools typically include a grammar checker. The purpose of a grammar checker is to identify sentences that are grammatically incorrect based on the syntax of the language. The proposed grammar checker is a rule-based system to identify sentences that are most likely to contain errors. The set of rules are automatically generated from a part of speech tagged corpus. The results from the grammar checker is a list of error sentences, error descriptions, and suggested corrections. A grammar checker for other languages can be similarly constructed, given a tagged corpus and a set of stop words. I