Four graduates of UST’s College of Information and Computing Sciences built ABKDa, an AI-assisted Filipino grammar checker, as their thesis project.
Arianne Ashley Manaog, Julia Melle Pascua, Lance Bernardino and Miguel Carlo Fajardo described the project in The Varsitarian’s September 21, 2026 report. Their aim was to support academic writing in Filipino.
In its August 2026 account of the project, UST described functions including lemmatization, which works with words’ root forms, part-of-speech tagging and error detection.
The project uses the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino’s Manwal sa Masinop na Pagsulat as a reference. Its approach brings Filipino writing rules into tools for analyzing text and suggesting corrections.
If eventually released and shown to be reliable, a tool like this could help students and writers identify spelling and grammar issues. Its usefulness would still depend on how accurately it handles real writing.
As of The Varsitarian’s September 21 report, the website had been taken private after the thesis was completed, and the team had announced no public-release date.
ABKDa offers a concrete example of Filipino-focused language technology being developed by students. For now, it should be understood as a thesis prototype, with access and reliability still separate questions.
