Re: Re: The (futile?) quest for an automatic paraphrase engine

[kiat]

True.

Interestingly, I did a small test on Microsoft Grammatic Check a few years ago to see how it works. I gave the following two sentences:

(1) He drives to work yesterday.

(2) Mary was attacked by a dog.

No complaints about (1) but an advisory to change (2) to the active.

I didn't have to do any more test :)

I don't have the latest Microsoft Word now. Otherwise, I'll be curious to see if things have changed.

[flyingmoose]

It's all an evil conspiracy to keep English class in public school. I say "good!" for defective grammar checkers, all the sooner than can be removed. Maybe we can teach kids to do Algebra without graphing calculators too...