From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Grammar checking Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:20:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83zg7t12i6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87355lqs4v.fsf@gmail.com> <838rfd2mmf.fsf@gnu.org> <58158ae4984ea8345733@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12734"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: relekarpayas@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, m.eliachevitch@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 31 15:21:04 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1piEgh-00036F-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:21:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piEg7-00031u-7D; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:20:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piEg4-00031O-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piEg2-00050d-Jt; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:20:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=o8Visj5HUh6SH7pop0Q1PFgapZGtMmSTBhO6vKqHufE=; b=pIdS1AcbNmRS UNMd1Zad3kat4Nig+2PFuj3ihhyPhKptHWU0eyYHBT8Z/7yhNxgG2pHSMcVZhOixSE+4k0Yud42ii xeiwn4tkPwI0HGhrh0Ur1Q8Fq8TSI+RtAb2Yq6k6GmwyroTeo/GMRrePMSz//egwp7xa6tYrVkvNN EYypuz4SOQwZed+cqh6rz8xI45mP16MRq3IEP6YpTleuIxDIDp/Yn9MzkEagcSTtWlXF4vrlfeo8K +5dkeC5SwSVS1G9LoqtgDJ2TNiq0X89WEyU2x5/cfP/iKb+ahLE5tNrQVMrniqtuv4IxSNcN7BKlI VWIw3GDKVJEohjfgxwyKkA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piEfk-0001R8-Kb; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:20:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <58158ae4984ea8345733@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:59:05 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:304918 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:59:05 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: Payas Relekar , rms@gnu.org, > m.eliachevitch@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > It's clearly not as accurate as non-free grammar checkers, but it does a > reasonable job. I don't know if that's enough to be proud of it. To give > you a feeling of what it does, I attach the 18 potential grammar errors it > detects in CONTRIBUTE. About 25% success rate. But CONTRIBUTE sees a lot of review, so it isn't surprising that most of the reports are false positives. It is better to try some document out there written by a non-native English speaker, like README.md of some package. Thanks.