Search for dissertations about: "language input"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 112 swedish dissertations containing the words language input.
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16. Text Harmonization Strategies for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Abstract : In this thesis I aim to improve phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) in a number of ways by the use of text harmonization strategies. PBSMT systems are built by training statistical models on large corpora of human translations. This architecture generally performs well for languages with similar structure. READ MORE
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17. Morphosyntactic Corpora and Tools for Persian
Abstract : This thesis presents open source resources in the form of annotated corpora and modules for automatic morphosyntactic processing and analysis of Persian texts. More specifically, the resources consist of an improved part-of-speech tagged corpus and a dependency treebank, as well as tools for text normalization, sentence segmentation, tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, and dependency parsing for Persian. READ MORE
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18. Talk the walk : Empirical studies and data-driven methods for geographical natural language applications
Abstract : Finding the way in known and unknown city environments is a task that all pedestrians carry out regularly. Current technology allows the use of smart devices as aids that can give automatic verbal route directions on the basis of the pedestrian's current position. READ MORE
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19. L2 Instruction and Collocation Learning : Classroom intervention research on input processing with L1 Swedish adolescent learners of English
Abstract : An important dimension of learning a second language (L2) is to build up a store of recurring word combinations that native speakers use. These so-called formulaic sequences (FSs) serve many functions in fluent language use. READ MORE
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20. Child bilingualism in Sweden and Lebanon : A study of Arabic-speaking 4-to-7-year-olds
Abstract : This dissertation investigates the vocabulary and narrative skills of 100 Arabic-Swedish-speaking children (aged 4–7 years) in Sweden cross-sectionally and the development of these skills (4 to 6) in a subgroup of 10 children longitudinally. Also, the vocabulary skills of 100 Arabic-speaking bilingual children (aged 4–7 years) in Lebanon are investigated cross-sectionally and compared to the Swedish cross-sectional study. READ MORE