Detailed Information
Software name
Federal Writing Guidelines
Organisation
Short description
Checks and corrects official texts in French, German, Italian and English in line with the editorial and typographic rules of the Federal Chancellery.
Documentation
The Swiss Confederation Editorial Assistant is designed to review official texts intended for the Federal Administration or for comparable institutional contexts.
The GPT works in two stages. First, it carries out a full grammatical review in accordance with the standard rules of the language concerned. Secondly, it checks compliance with the Federal Chancellery’s editorial and typographic guidelines, for example in relation to capitalisation, dates, numbers, abbreviations, quotation marks, dashes, spacing and other drafting conventions.
The system supports four languages:
French (Switzerland)
German (Switzerland)
Italian (Switzerland)
British English
For each issue identified, the GPT provides:
the type of error
the location in the text
the context
the original wording
the proposed correction
the reference to the applicable rule
This tool is particularly suitable for reviewing:
reports and dispatches
communications and institutional documentation
normative or quasi-normative texts
factsheets and multilingual administrative content
It does not freely rewrite texts and does not intervene in subjective stylistic preferences. It identifies only objective breaches of grammar or of the applicable editorial rules.
Software version
License
NLPL
Publiccode.yml Version
0.5.0