Hardware CRIMP?

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07 AM

Currently there’s only one solution: re-read stuff, carefully.

Grammar checkers etc. can do quite a good job of alerting you to a potential issue - the Word grammar checker is actually quite good - but no software I’m aware of is capable of the structural analysis required to improve your use of language. Full-scale semantic analysis is the Holy Grail of e.g. machine translation developers (not to mention speech recognition developers, although they seem to be having more success with fuzzy phonemes), so grammar checkers too are awaiting more sophisticated AI that might be capable of in-depth linguistic analysis.

Meanwhile, your brain has a remarkable number of built-in pattern recognition routines, and they will do the job if you let ‘em!