Search for dissertations about: "Applied linguistic"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 swedish dissertations containing the words Applied linguistic.
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1. Interviewing preschoolers: Facilitators and barriers for young children's legal testimony
Abstract : Children’s testimonies are often vital during criminal investigations of alleged maltreatment. The aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding of forensic interviews with preschool-aged children (aged 3 to 6 years). Study I consisted of a mixed-methods survey of 88 specialist child interviewers. READ MORE
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2. Fuzzy Set Theory Applied to Make Medical Prognoses for Cancer Patients
Abstract : As we all know the classical set theory has a deep-rooted influence in the traditional mathematics. According to the two-valued logic, an element can belong to a set or cannot. In the former case, the element’s membership degree will be assigned to one, whereas in the latter case it takes the zero value. READ MORE
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3. “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
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4. Predicting Linguistic Structure with Incomplete and Cross-Lingual Supervision
Abstract : Contemporary approaches to natural language processing are predominantly based on statistical machine learning from large amounts of text, which has been manually annotated with the linguistic structure of interest. However, such complete supervision is currently only available for the world's major languages, in a limited number of domains and for a limited range of tasks. READ MORE
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5. Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
Abstract : This thesis is about fixedness, or the process whereby orthographic words group together and congeal into fixed expressions that might subsequently reduce and become single words. The discussion focuses on three levels: realization, conceptualization, and discourse. READ MORE