A corpus-based analysis of Filipino writing errors

College

College of Computer Studies

Department/Unit

Software Technology

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

International Conference on Asian Language Processing

First Page

95

Last Page

98

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

This study presents the common grammatical and spelling errors made by Filipino native speakers through corpus-based analysis. A total of 8,000 sentences of student translation exercises were collected and analyzed using manual and computational means. A total of 1,413 errors surfaced that were categorized into eight error types namely: use of ligatures, spelling error, use of enclitics, translation errors, hyphenation, use of function words “nang” and “ng”, morphophonemic errors, and word repetition. The study concludes that the top 3 common errors are the use of ligatures such as “na”, /-ng/ and /-g/ (46.6%), spelling errors such as incorrectly merging of different words (19.5%), and use of enclitics such as “daw” and “raw” (16.1%). For future works, theoretical framework will be considered when analyzing the errors.

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Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Spelling errors; Filipino language--Grammar

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

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