Web Search as a Linguistic Tool [pdf]

we (me and another guy) used that as the project/essay topic for a AI graduate class. We evaluated that using google n-gram are outperformed standard grammar checker/suggestion, especially with sentences & long phases (although i can't recall how solid the evaluation went. how large is our testing data set. After all, this is all done in a semester class). And developed a plugin in open-office for that.

Many years passed. This kind reminded me of that. Not sure if there is something similar now in the market? If not, i think I can try to dig out what left in the project. God, i love those simple times.

Edit: just recalled that we were inspired by some paper about taking advantage of n-gram at the time. and I just found this half yr ago post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12752671