Dependency Grammar Based English Subject-Verb Agreement Evaluation
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چکیده
As a key factor in English grammar checking, subject-verb agreement evaluation plays an important part in assessing translated English texts. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method for subject-verb agreement evaluation on dependency grammars with the processing of phrase syntactic parsing and sentence simplification for subject-verb discovery. Experimental results on patent text show that we achieve an F-score of 91.98% for subject-verb pair recognition, and a precision rate of 97.93% for subject-verb agreement evaluation on correctly recognized pairs in the previous stage.
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