Essays about: "Adam Ek"

Found 3 essays containing the words Adam Ek.

1. 1. Distributing Educational Opportunities : Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Approaches

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Adam Ek; [2019]
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   Abstract : When there is scarcity of educational position, we need a just system of distribution that decides who's to be admitted to said position. In this text I argue that the common system of using grades and test results as merit to distribute educational opportunities is unjust. READ MORE

3. 2. Blending Words or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blendguage : A computational study of lexical blending in Swedish

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för datorlingvistik

   Author : Adam Ek; [2018]
   Keywords : Lexical blends; regression; word formation; feature ablation; ranking;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates Swedish lexical blends. A lexical blend is defined as the concatenation of two words, where at least one word has been reduced. Lexical blends are approached from two perspectives. First, the thesis investigates lexical blends as they appear in the Swedish language. READ MORE

4. 3. Extracting social networks from fiction : Imaginary and invisible friends: Investigating the social world of imaginary friends.

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

   Author : Adam Ek; [2017]
   Keywords : Centrality; Graphs; Named entities; Pronoun; Pronoun resolution; Social network;

   Abstract : This thesis develops an approach to extract the social relation between characters in literary text to create a social network. The approach uses co-occurrences of named entities, keywords associated with the named entities, and the dependency relations that exist between the named entities to construct the network. READ MORE