"Is the sky pure today?" awkchecker: An assistive tool for detecting and correcting collocation errors

UIST 2008 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 121-130

  Park, Taehyun ^a   Lank, Edward ^a   Poupart, Pascal ^a   Terry, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collocation errors; Linguistic tools; Non native speakers; Writing aids.

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

ASSISTIVE TOOLS; COLLOCATION ERRORS; END USERS; NON NATIVES; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; NOVEL METHODS; STATE-OF-THE ARTS; WRITING AIDS.;

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EID: 63349110024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1449715.1449736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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