Paper Info
Title
A Block-Based Structure Editor for the English Language.
Abstract
A structure editor is developed which helps its user compose grammatically correct English sentences. Its user-interface is inspired by Scratch which is a block-based structure editor for the programming language. Scratch allows its user to compose a program of block-shaped components only if their arrangement is syntactically correct so that the user can experience coding without fear of committing syntax errors. So does the developed editor for the English sentences. The editor allows the user to drag blocks freely around and bond them together only if their combination matches the grammar described in the BNF notation. Then the user can compose a correct English sentence with good attention to the grammar That makes it possible for a beginner, who is not perfect in understanding the English grammar, to try composing a sentence and learn the grammar by experiences. A prototype of the structure editor is presented that covers only simple affirmative sentences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-65521-5_96
ADVANCES IN NETWORK-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, NBIS-2017
Field
DocType
Volume
English grammar,Language education,Computer science,Grammar,Structure editor,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,If and only if,Backus–Naur Form,Sentence,Syntax error
Conference
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2367-4512
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Osamu Goto100.34
Michitoshi Niibori21110.70
Masaru Kamada311585.04