[Project-ideas] Enhancing the grammar checker

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Aditi Bhatnagar
<aditi24.bhatnagar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would be glad if you can give me reviews for the idea.
>
> Most of the people, when they write any document wants it to be
> grammatically error proof. Grammatical errors leave a negative  impact about
> the sender on the reader of the document. Thus users really desire that
> there should be some mechanism so that their grammatical mistakes are
> identified and corrected.
> Though Libre Office has incorporated grammar checks, these are ineffective
> and check basic mistakes viz repetition of words etc, it is unable to check
> correct usage of tenses, verbs etc.Since grammar of a language is something
> that is well defined, the grammatical concepts can be coded so as to reduce
> human efforts to identify mistakes.
> What I specifically wish to do is to add a new button to libre office named
> grammar checker, whenever the user clicks on that, the grammatically correct
> copy of the selected text is generated.
> I don't wish to keep it as an auto-correct option since high sensitivity of
> grammar checks has always been a problem and can irritate the  user. So
> whenever user feels like rectifying the document , he/she will click on the
> button.
>
> What are your suggestions related to this? I wish to incorporate this
> feature with different kinds of text editor or office kind of software, do
> you think JAVA would be good choice to code this into?
>

Dear Aditi,

As discussed on the application by Sankarshan, Please get in touch
with libre office people and you can have a
look at their bugs (and also I think libre office also was selected in
this year's gsoc) and interact with those people so that you can
contribute in a better I guess

Regards,
-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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https://launchpad.net/~bhavi