Can Google Cloud Natural Language API be used for spell check and grammar check? Could it be a good alternative to LanguageTool.org? If it is possible, how can it be done?
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https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/ – Adrian Sep 27 '17 at 11:20
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As @AngusTay explained in his answer, Google Cloud Natural Language API can perform syntax analysis to identify how a sentence is structured and classify its components, among other features, however it does not provide a grammar and spelling check.
Follow this link to understand what can be done using the Natural Language API. Basically, the API includes:
- Sentiment analysis to identify the emotional opinion within the text.
- Entity analysis to provide information about different entities present in the sentence.
- Entity sentiment analysis to identify emotional opinions about the entities present in the sentence.
- Syntactic analysis to extract linguistic information from all the words and tokens in a sentence.
- Content classification to identify the words and classify them according to different categories.

Rodrigo C.
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Unfortunately, Google Cloud NL does not provide spell check and grammar check. It does analysis on the sentences, giving info with the machine learning algorithm
- prediction: sentiment analysis
- sentence structure: Syntax analysis
- Entity info: Entities analysis
So it doesn't do the same thing as language tool (which checks spelling and grammar).

Stephen Rauch
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