-VIKASH KUMAR
How Grammarly helps in improving the quality of content and how it reduces the time taken to carry out the editing.
“Our young children and grandchildren will think it is completely natural to talk to machines that look at them and understand them,” Eric Horvitz, a computer scientist at Microsoft’s research laboratory
For decades, computer scientists have been pursuing artificial intelligence―the use of computers to simulate human thinking. But in recent years, rapid progress has been made in machines that can listen, speak, see, reason and learn, in their way. The prospect, according to scientists and economists, is that artificial intelligence will transform the way humans and machines communicate and collaborate.
Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a computer to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. Since the development of the digital computer in the 1940s, it has been demonstrated that computers can be programmed to carry out very complex tasks—as, for example, discovering proofs for mathematical theorems or playing chess or even improving the quality of content—with great proficiency.
AI has focused chiefly on the following components of intelligence
• Learning
• Reasoning
• Problem- solving
• Perception
There are a number of different forms of learning as applied to artificial intelligence. The simplest is learning by trial and error. For example, a simple computer program for solving mate-in-one chess problems might try moves at random until the mate is found. The program might then store the solution with the position so that the next time the computer encountered the same position it would recall the solution. This simple memorizing of individual items and procedures—known as rote learning—is relatively easy to implement on a computer. More challenging is the problem of implementing what is called a generalization. Generalization involves applying past experience to analogous new situations. For example, a program that learns the past tense of regular English verbs by rote will not be able to produce the past tense of a word such as jump unless it previously had been presented with jumped, whereas a program that is able to generalize can learn the “add ed” rule and so form the past tense of jump based on experience with similar verbs.
One of the prime examples of artificial intelligence powered product is Grammarly. It is used in order to analyze every noun phrase and verb phrase in every sentence for syntactic and semantic errors. Grammarly automatically detects grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in your writing. Copy and paste any English text into Grammarly’s Editor, or install Grammarly’s free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. Grammarly will help you write correctly on nearly every site on the web.
Grammarly’s algorithms flag potential issues in the text and suggest context-specific corrections for grammar, spelling, wordiness, style, punctuation, and even plagiarism. Grammarly explains the reasoning behind each correction, so you can make an informed decision about whether, and how, to correct an issue.
Millions of writers worldwide trust Grammarly’s products, which are also licensed by more than 600 leading universities and corporations. Grammarly helps students achieve academic goals and improve their writing in essays, reports, theses, dissertations, and college entrance applications. Professionals use Grammarly to provide expert help and instant feedback on the accuracy, impact, and credibility of their English writing in a variety of fields, such as law, healthcare, academia, marketing, engineering, and journalism. Grammarly can be an equally powerful tool for job seekers, foreign students and English language learners, and non-native English-speaking professionals.
Grammarly works by providing insights about your work for clear, concise and effective writing. Basically, Grammarly deals with the following cases for the improvement in content.
• Confused prepositions
• Overuse of the passive voice
• Wordy sentences
• Repetitive words
• Common writing and grammar mistakes like misplaced apostrophes
• Spelling errors
• Lengthy sentences to edit down
• Punctuations
The ability to suggest the correct usage of English articles (the, a, an), prepositions (of, on, at, in, by, ...) , noun phrase , nouns and adjectives, verb phrases, verbs and adverbs and the ability to suggest improvements regarding clarity, conciseness, consistency makes Grammarly a second line of defense for writers, bloggers, and anyone who wants to write correct. It not only helps people to communicate more effectively but also reduces the time which people usually waste while making a manual correction in their work. Even though it is true that machine cannot take the place of humans but at least they can help them to work quickly and effectively.
Let's take an example to demonstrate the function of Grammarly.
"Hello everyone myself Vikash Kumar and I am currently pursuing my gradution in Korean Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. I have completed my high school from Patna, Bihar. From the very beginning, I was keen to learn foreign language but never thought that I will get the opportunity to learn Korean language in JNU".
When I checked this paragraph by simple copy paste in Grammarly I
come to know that there were 5 mistakes in this paragraph.
1.ADD THE PUNCTUATION MARK
Comma after beginning
2.SPELLING MISTAKE
spelling of graduation
3.ADD AN ARTICLE
It suggests that we should add an
article " a" before "foreign"
The whole process took only 2 minutes and it was very precise and easy to do without much effort.
