Search for dissertations about: "applied linguistics"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 50 swedish dissertations containing the words applied linguistics.
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16. Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan : (Oral Narratives)
Abstract : This work presents a first study of discourse features in Balochi narratives of Sistan. Discourse analysis investigates what are the properties that make for well-formed texts in a language. There are many approaches to discourse analysis and most approaches focus on a particular aspect of text formation. READ MORE
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17. Translation as Linear Transduction : Models and Algorithms for Efficient Learning in Statistical Machine Translation
Abstract : Automatic translation has seen tremendous progress in recent years, mainly thanks to statistical methods applied to large parallel corpora. Transductions represent a principled approach to modeling translation, but existing transduction classes are either not expressive enough to capture structural regularities between natural languages or too complex to support efficient statistical induction on a large scale. READ MORE
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18. Word Alignment by Re-using Parallel Phrases
Abstract : In this thesis we present the idea of using parallel phrases for word alignment. Each parallel phrase is extracted from a set of manual word alignments and contains a number of source and target words and their corresponding alignments. If a parallel phrase matches a new sentence pair, its word alignments can be applied to the new sentence. READ MORE
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19. Compound Processing for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Abstract : In this thesis I explore how compound processing can be used to improve phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) between English and German/Swedish. Both German and Swedish generally use closed compounds, which are written as one word without spaces or other indicators of word boundaries. READ MORE
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20. “Speak your own language” : On tensions regarding Finnish in Sweden
Abstract : In this compilation dissertation I examine social tensions that relate to the Sweden Finnish minority and the Finnish language in Sweden. The dissertation is based on critical applied linguistics and I employ various related theoretical notions in the included articles. READ MORE