DEVELOPING A GRAMMAR CHECKER FOR SWEDISH 1

A grammar checker for Swedish, launched on the market as Grammatifix, has been developed at Lingsoft in 1997-1999. This paper gives first a brief background of grammar checking projects for the Nordic languages, with an emphasis on Swedish. Then, the concept and definition of a grammar checker in general is discussed, followed by an overview of the starting points and limitations that Lingsoft had in setting up the Grammatifix development project. After this, the initial product development process is described, leading to an overview of the error types covered presently by Grammatifix. The error treatment scheme in Grammatifix is presented, with a focus on its relationship with the error detection rules. Finally, the error types included in Grammatifix are compared to those of two other known projects, namely SCARRIE and Granska. 1