Abstract
Many errors in Faroese writing are linked to the letter ð, a letter which has no corresponding phoneme, and is always omitted intervocally and wordfinally after a vowel. It plays an important role in the written language, disambiguating homophone but not homograph forms like infinitive kasta ‘throw’ from its participle kastað. Since adding a hypercorrect ð or erroneously omitting it often results in an existing word, these errors cannot be captured by ordinary spellcheckers. The article presents a grammar checker targeting ð errors, and discusses challenges related to false alarms.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.nodalida-cgmta.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2023 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
- Editors:
- Eckhard Bick, Trond Trosterud, Tanel Alumäe
- Venue:
- WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association of Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 15–19
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-cgmta.3
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Trond Trosterud. 2023. To ð or not to ð - A Faroese CG-based grammar checker targeting ð errors. In Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2023 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications, pages 15–19, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Association of Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- To ð or not to ð - A Faroese CG-based grammar checker targeting ð errors (Trosterud, 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.nodalida-cgmta.3.pdf