Dirk Schreurs and Geert Adriaens. Controlled English (CE): From COGRAM to ALCOGRAM, pages 206--221. Oxford, England -- Dordrecht -- Boston -- London, 1992.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....is wrong with a sentence, but cannot indicate what exactly the problem is. We will call these vague critiques. The errors against controlled language restrictions can be subdivided according to the three different types of restrictions which are generally imposed by controlled languages (see e.g. [11]) 1. Restrictions on vocabulary 2. Restrictions on syntax 3. Restrictions on style We will look at these restrictions one by one. Vocabulary The assessment of this task of the controlled language checker is certainly important, but possibly the test suite method is not the appropriate method, as ....

....for, e.g. Write only one instruction per test sentence. from [1] Much more difficult to achieve are rules like lay out rules, e.g. If you want to show that some steps are closely related, use the tabular layout (vertical layout) for the text. Some rules require a large piece of text, like ([11]) Do not use one sentence paragraphs more than once in every 10 paragraphs. In these cases, it is probably better to start from a corpus. Error Correction We can distinguish between three types of controlled language checkers: 1. Checkers which flag mistakes but do not make any suggestions for ....

Dirk Schreurs and Geert Adriaens. Controlled English (CE): From COGRAM to ALCOGRAM, pages 206--221. Oxford, England -- Dordrecht -- Boston -- London, 1992.

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