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From: djm@etive.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy)
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Subject: Re: Need an English parser
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Date: 13 Jun 89 10:08:41 GMT
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Reply-To: djm@etive.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy)
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Not sure if this is *exactly* what was required, but a friend of mine has
just taken delivery of a program called "RightWriter" which is the logical
extension to spell checkers and such. You save the file and let the program
go through it - it makes suggestions for clarity, `strength', spelling,
grammar, syntax and punctuation within the text (these are reported in <<>>s
so that they can be readily stripped out again later). At the end readability,
strength and such like are given as indices and scales, and words not in the
lexicon are listed.
It is configurable and I was hugely impressed (after, admittedly, pointing
out to him when told what he was going to get that I did *not* like the
idea of an American program telling me my prose stinks :-)).
Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the company who supplied it,
or the cost, but if anyone is interested I could find out. This implies the
disclaimer that I'm not connected with them in any way.

Murff....

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