Search for dissertations about: "linguistic distance"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words linguistic distance.
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1. Authentic Language : Övdalsk, metapragmatic exchange and the margins of Sweden’s linguistic market
Abstract : This compilation thesis engages with practices that in some way place stakes in the social existence of Övdalsk (also älvdalska, Elfdalian, Övdalian), a marginal form of Scandinavian used mainly in Sweden’s Älvdalen municipality. The practices at hand range from early 20th century descriptive dialectology and contemporary lay-linguistics to language advocacy and language political debate. READ MORE
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2. Immigrant Careers - Why Country of Origin Matters
Abstract : This dissertation examines the labor market outcomes of a population of natives and immigrants in Sweden from 1968 and until 2001. Previous research has consistently pointed to the importance of an individual’s country of origin, without being able to fully explain why this is the case. READ MORE
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3. Spelling Normalisation and Linguistic Analysis of Historical Text for Information Extraction
Abstract : Historical text constitutes a rich source of information for historians and other researchers in humanities. Many texts are however not available in an electronic format, and even if they are, there is a lack of NLP tools designed to handle historical text. READ MORE
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4. Splitting rocks: Learning word sense representations from corpora and lexica
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
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5. Tradition and Modernity : Images of Jews in Latvian Novels 1934 – 1944
Abstract : Jews have been represented in Latvian literature for centuries. This dissertation investigates the images of Jews in a comprehensive selection of Latvian novels published between 1934–1944 in order to establish whether, and to what extent, the traditional images are subject to change under the pressure of modernity, nationalism and a rapidly changing political situation. READ MORE