--- Forwarded Message from "Edith Paillat" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: RE: #7784 looking for Spanish Grammar/composition checker >Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:04:38 +1300 >Thread-Topic: #7784 looking for Spanish Grammar/composition checker >Thread-Index: AcUKIT7lZXU/6jpzSpOCinM8728mLgAENhQg >From: "Edith Paillat" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]> Hi, We are using "El Corrector" and Le Correcteur http://www.futurcommerce.com/documens/products_list.asp?Land=CAN&Lang=0&dept%5Fi d=1&dept%5Fname=Correcteurshere but students find it difficult to use in conjunction with word. What is more it does not always recognise mispelled words, and syntactic suggestions are not always accurate. It is not so much a problem with the software itself, I just think that toolproofing kits in general - just like speech recognition - still need improvements.. This gets in the question of whether artificial intelligence can match a human mind (cognition..). We are also currently trying Atajo 4.0 http://www.newtexts.com/newtexts/book.cfm?book_id=1807 on our PCs. Best of luck **************************** Edith Paillat Language Technology Specialist Language Learning Centre Victoria University of Wellington P.O.Box 600, Wellington New Zealand +64 4 463 5792 http://www.vuw.ac.nz/llc/about/projects.aspx -----Original Message----- From: LLTI-Editor [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, 4 February 2005 7:50 a.m. To: [log in to unmask] Subject: #7784 looking for Spanish Grammar/composition checker --- Forwarded Message from Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:23:22 -0700 >From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: looking for Spanish Grammar/composition checker We are looking for software suitable for intermediate students of Spanish (third year and above) trying to improve their capabilities in writing compositions and papers. Is there anything new in this area? What tools have proved most effective for your students? The hope is to find a program that can check a document, and give significant guidance to the student in improving their composition, before they submit it to the teacher. Guidance in proper grammatical usage and if possible, some stylistic mark-up is desired. Our professors are hoping for more than they get with the Spanish version of Microsoft Word. Another target group is the returning students, and sometimes teachers, who feel that they once were fluent, but need to brush up on their skills and reduce the Anglicisms in their writing. Any suggestions? Thanks, Derek Derek Roff Language Learning Center Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885 Internet: [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************