atw: Re: Article: Microsoft Word Grammar Checker Are No Good, Scholar Conclude

It took a serious academic study to work out that the grammar checker is a
dud? Duuuuuude! Like we fully hadn't noticed that over the last 10 years or
so!

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From: Stuart Burnfield [mailto:sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2005 3:45 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Article: Microsoft Word Grammar Checker Are No Good,
Scholar Conclude






http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=y0przoap7fzws5o9ez7p7vv3h95hdg6a

"But how much good does the grammar checker actually do?
 Precious little, according to Sandeep Krishnamurthy, an
 associate professor of marketing and e-commerce at the
 University of Washington. After experimenting with the tool,
 Mr. Krishnamurthy concluded that it cannot identify many basic
 grammatical faux pas -- like errors in capitalization, punctuation,
 and verb tense.

Now he has dedicated himself to chronicling the grammar checker's
 blind spots, and to persuading Microsoft to improve the tool."

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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre

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