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A Block-Based Structure Editor for the English Language

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A structure editor is developed which helps its user compose grammatically correct English sentences. Its user-interface is inspired by Scratch which is a block-based structure editor for the programming language. Scratch allows its user to compose a program of block-shaped components only if their arrangement is syntactically correct so that the user can experience coding without fear of committing syntax errors. So does the developed editor for the English sentences. The editor allows the user to drag blocks freely around and bond them together only if their combination matches the grammar described in the BNF notation. Then the user can compose a correct English sentence with good attention to the grammar. That makes it possible for a beginner, who is not perfect in understanding the English grammar, to try composing a sentence and learn the grammar by experiences. A prototype of the structure editor is presented that covers only simple affirmative sentences.

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  1. Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 316-8511, Japan

    Osamu Goto, Michitoshi Niibori & Masaru Kamada

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  1. Osamu Goto
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  2. Michitoshi Niibori
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Correspondence to Masaru Kamada .

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

  3. Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Goto, O., Niibori, M., Kamada, M. (2018). A Block-Based Structure Editor for the English Language. In: Barolli, L., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Advances in Network-Based Information Systems. NBiS 2017. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65521-5_96

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