To ð or not to ð - A Faroese CG-based grammar checker targeting ð errors

Trond Trosterud


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.
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2023.nodalida-cgmta.3
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Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2023 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications
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May
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2023
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Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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Eckhard Bick, Trond Trosterud, Tanel Alumäe
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Association of Computational Linguistics
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15–19
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-cgmta.3
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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.
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To ð or not to ð - A Faroese CG-based grammar checker targeting ð errors (Trosterud, 2023)
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