Un traducteur demandait il y a quelques jours sur le forum de Word comment faire en sorte que le correcteur grammatical anglais d'Office cesse de lui signaler comme fautives certaines constructions correspondant à des fragments de phrases. Cet utilisateur d’Office ne souhaitait pas désactiver le correcteur...

A Belgian association of French-speaking teachers interviewed me recently for their web site: they were interested in a few details about our spell- and grammar checkers, the future of these proofing tools, pedagogical implications, etc… We talked about the kinds of grammatical mistakes which the latest...

I was in Europe a few weeks ago to attend a Natural Language Processing (TALN) Conference in Belgium where I gave a speech on our latest French grammar and spelling checkers for Office. While I was there, I was interviewed by a journalist from La Libre Belgique , who was covering a televised spelling...

A few weeks ago, Professor Jean Véronis, from the French University of Aix-en-Provence , carried out a comparison of the new Microsoft Office French spell-checker and the French speller included in the Google Toolbar (see here for a summary in English). Last week, he carried out a similar experiment...