Development of a Cebuano Parse Tree for a Grammar Correction Tool Using Deep Parsing

Abstract

Many technologies had surfaced to help people understand and learn a language. Learning major languages like English, Spanish, etc., was easier because a lot of people were speaking it and actually knew the structural integrity of its grammar, but what about the minor ones? How would you learn a language easily if you did not know its grammatical structure, especially if the language was not that known? The researchers would present a grammatical tool using deep parsing for Cebuano, a language that was mainly spoken in Central Visayas in the Philippines and was considered as one of the main languages in the whole Visayan region. This grammar tool would be useful mainly to people who wanted to learn the language; students, teachers, people from other regions of the country, and even foreigners. In this study, the researchers would relay the grammar through deep parsing, a method used to give a complete syntactic structure for a group of words. It also showed that the tool, with reliability marks higher than the expected 55%, would actually help the ones who needed it the most, and look forward for them into using it more.