Thread: Grammatica - A tool for Russian grammar analysis/lookup

Yes, awesome is what I would rate such a software /website. I am particularly interested in the first 3 features of the tool:

• Inserting stress marks for every word in any Russian text
• Looking up grammatical information such as case, gender, number for any word
• Looking up all the inflected form of any word

However I have a concern is about the stress mark. How do you determine which word is stressed if the word is similarly spelled, for example замок, and other such words which have different meanings depending on how the word is stressed.

Apart from that I've always had problems with the grammatical information of words in more complex sentence constructions and thus the tool, if it really works, would be like a god sent.

Cheers and wishing you every success!

Did your software resolve logical connection between words? It would be great if the software can divide complicated sentence in to smaller ones. Is it a purpose of what I can see at 0:50-1:00 in your movie?

Thank you for the feedback!

Originally Posted by bitpicker

Definitely sounds interesting, but the video is just audio for me in Firefox / Linux. Then again, the software is probably Windows-only as well anyway, right?

Yes, the software runs only on Windows. We would be interested in porting it over to Linux but that would depend on demand and how mature moonlight is with regards to support for .Net 4. In the meantime you can check out our video on youtube (as I understand, vimeo has issues with Linux support): Explaining Grammatica... (Youtube).

Originally Posted by tohca

However I have a concern is about the stress mark. How do you determine which word is stressed if the word is similarly spelled, for example замок, and other such words which have different meanings depending on how the word is stressed.

Apart from that I've always had problems with the grammatical information of words in more complex sentence constructions and thus the tool, if it really works, would be like a god sent.

Cheers and wishing you every success!

Thank you for the support! Our stress mark 'engine' will be able to figure when the stress needs to be on a different part of the word depending on context. Our engine will analyze the surrounding words to sort out such 'collisions'. We will also have a list of 'exceptions' for cases such when the word "на" is used with a one syllable word.

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

I would definitely be interested in such a product. You in need of any beta testers?

Thank you for your interest in our application. We might have some sort of beta testing session closer to the release date, but we still need to think about this issue. I will contact you via PM if we decide to initiate a public beta testing program.

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

Did your software resolve logical connection between words? It would be great if the software can divide complicated sentence in to smaller ones. Is it a purpose of what I can see at 0:50-1:00 in your movie?

While our software does build logical connections between words, this is done primarily to improve the accuracy of Grammatica. The highlighting feature that you mentioned is designed to allow people to focus on aspects of Russian grammar that they are having difficulty with. So you can have Grammatica highlight all other words with a case similar to the currently selected word. Thus giving you a better understanding of how a particular case (or any other grammatical characteristic) works.

Could you give me an example of what you mean by dividing complicated sentences into smaller parts? I just want to make sure that we avoid any confusion.

Originally Posted by grammatica

Yes, the software runs only on Windows. We would be interested in porting it over to Linux but that would depend on demand and how mature moonlight is with regards to support for .Net 4. In the meantime you can check out our video on youtube (as I understand, vimeo has issues with Linux support): Explaining Grammatica... (Youtube).

I think you mean Mono (moonlight is silverlight on Linux, not .NET). Mono causes severe allergies among Linux users and is just as prone to crashing as anything Windowsy, so I woldn't put any energy into that, if you ask me. Sensible coding, again, if you ask me, does not use proprietary technology at all.

Could you give me an example of what you mean by dividing complicated sentences into smaller parts? I just want to make sure that we avoid any confusion.

Зима. Крестьянин, торжествуя, на дровнях обновляет путь. --> Крестьянин обновляет путь.

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

Зима. Крестьянин, торжествуя, на дровнях обновляет путь. --> Крестьянин обновляет путь.

Sorry, our application would not be to do that. Might be worth thinking about for version 2.