28/09/2026
GRAMMARLY IN FILIPINO?โ๏ธ
โMakakatulong โto sa mga up-and-coming na mga students ngayon, kasi napapansin ko mostly, mga fluent sa English tapos hirap sa Filipino,โ developer Miguel Carlo Fajardo shared.
Four graduates of the University of Santo Tomas College of Information and Computing Sciences developed a digital grammar checker specifically for Filipino writing as their thesis project.
Called โABKDa: Filipino Grammar Checker,โ the website was created by Arianne Ashley Manaog, Julia Melle Pascua, Lance Bernardino, and Miguel Carlo Fajardo to help identify and correct spelling and grammatical errors in Filipino academic texts.
The idea grew from what the group saw as a lack of reliable online tools dedicated to Filipino grammar compared with the number of writing assistants already available for English.
ABKDa uses language-processing techniques such as lemmatization, which reduces words like โnag-aaral,โ โmag-aaral,โ and โinaaralโ to their root word โaralโ so the system can analyze them consistently.
It also uses part-of-speech tagging and predefined grammatical rules to examine how words function within a sentence and detect possible structural errors.
The developers based the systemโs Filipino-language rules on the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipinoโs โManwal sa Masinop na Pagsulatโ to maintain a consistent standard.
Users can also upload documents for analysis, although the system has limits on the amount of text it can process. Its creators emphasized that AI-generated corrections may still contain mistakes and should not be treated as automatically correct.
ABKDa is currently not publicly accessible after the group closed the website following completion of the thesis. The developers hope to continue improving the system and eventually adapt it to newer AI models, but deployment costs remain one of the challenges.
The project shows how Filipino can also have a place in emerging language technologies, not only as a subject studied in school, but as a language supported by tools built for modern digital writing.
