Search for dissertations about: "lexical access"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words lexical access.

2. 11. Studies in Corpora and Idioms : Getting the cat out of the bag

   Author : David Minugh; Nils-Lennart Johannesson; Maria Kuteeva; Karin Aijmer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Coll corpus; corpora; corpus creation; idioms; idiom variation; idiom-breaking; online newspapers; student newspapers; college newspapers; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Abstract : “Idiomatic” expressions, usually called “idioms”, such as a dime a dozen, a busman’s holiday, or to have bats in your belfry are a curious part of any language: they usually have a fixed lexical (why a busman?) and structural composition (only dime and dozen in direct conjunction mean ‘common, ordinary’), can be semantically obscure (why bats?), yet are widely recognized in the speech community, in spite of being so rare that only large corpora can provide us with access to sufficient empirical data on their use.In this compilation thesis, four published studies focusing on idioms in corpora are presented. READ MORE

4. 12. On information quality in primary health care registries

   Author : Håkan Petersson; György Surján; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Abstract : Data compilation has a long history in the field of medicine, and domains for which data are pooled include, among others, epidemiological studies and quality assessment. Unfortunately, data may be of low quality with poor validity and reliability, and consequently, decisions based on statistics may be unreliable. READ MORE

5. 13. Splitting rocks: Learning word sense representations from corpora and lexica

   Author : Luis Nieto Piña; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; language technology; natural language processing; distributional models; semantic representations; distributed representations; word senses; embeddings; word sense disambiguation; linguistic resources; corpus; lexicon; machine learning; neural networks;

   Abstract : The representation of written language semantics is a central problem of language technology and a crucial component of many natural language processing applications, from part-of-speech tagging to text summarization. These representations of linguistic units, such as words or sentences, allow computer applications that work with language to process and manipulate the meaning of text. READ MORE

6. 14. The development of the Situated Phoneme (SiP) test : A Swedish test of phonemic discrimination in noise for adultpeople with hearing loss

   Author : Erik Witte; Elina Mäki-Torkko; Susanne Köbler; Jonas Ekeroot; Karolina Smeds; Thomas Brand; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; hearing impairment; speech audiometry; phonemic discrimination; realistic masking noise; critical differences; Swedish;

   Abstract : In the current thesis, a Swedish phoneme-level speech-audiometric test in natural background noise was developed. The test is called the Situated Phoneme (SiP) test. READ MORE

7. 15. Cognitive load in dialogue interpreting : Experience and directionality

   Author : Aleksandra Adler; Elisabet Tiselius; Birgitta Englund Dimitrova; Christopher D. Mellinger; Agnieszka Chmiel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dialogue interpreting; cognitive load; interpreting experience; directionality; cognitive translation and interpreting studies; disfluency; eye-tracking; mixed-methods; översättningsvetenskap; Translation Studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the effect of experience and language direction on cognitive load in dialogue interpreting. The general objective of the study is to contribute to a better understanding of cognitive processes involved in dialogue interpreting. READ MORE