Essays about: "Alternative english"

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  1. 11. "We are increasingly western rather than Soviet" : A qualitative study on attitudes to English in Lithuania

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Eva Svenborn Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : English language; language attitudes; language ideologies; linguistic imperialism; Lithuania; Russification.;

    Abstract : The English language holds a status of a global Lingua Franca that is geographically and historically unique, and English dominance and the language ideologies surrounding it have been the subject of extensive research and discussions. Two contrasting viewpoints significant for these discussions are the idea of the global spread of English as a form of linguistic imperialism, and the idea of the global spread of English as a natural, and mostly positive, consequence of globalisation. READ MORE

  3. 12. Unsupervised multilingual distractor generation for fill-in-the-blank questions

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Zhe Han; [2022]
    Keywords : Multilingual; Distractor; BERT;

    Abstract : Fill-in-the-blank multiple choice questions (MCQs) play an important role in the educational field, but the manual generation of them is quite resource-consuming, so it has gradually turned into an attractive NLP task. Thereinto, question creation itself has become a mainstream NLP research topic, while distractor (wrong alternative) generation (DG) still remains out of the spotlight. READ MORE

  4. 13. Automatic Annotation of Speech: Exploring Boundaries within Forced Alignment for Swedish and Norwegian

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Klaudia Biczysko; [2022]
    Keywords : forced alignment; automatic speech recognition; ASR; natural language processing; under-resourced languages; Swedish; Norwegian; CTC segmentation; wav2vec2; kaldi; HTK; dynamic time warping;

    Abstract : In Automatic Speech Recognition, there is an extensive need for time-aligned data. Manual speech segmentation has been shown to be more laborious than manual transcription, especially when dealing with tens of hours of speech. READ MORE

  5. 14. Translating “gender” into Arabic: “jins ” , “jinsayn ” , “naw ʽ” or “jindar ”? A study of the translation of the concept “gender” in single- and multi-word expressions in feminist knowledge building

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Cecilie Olivia Buchhave; [2021]
    Keywords : Equivalence; Descriptive Translation Studies; Feminism; Gender; Gendered; Arabic; Musawah for Equality in the Family; Muslim Islamic Feminism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The terms “gender” and “sex” are central to feminist concerns. In English scholarship “gender” is disputed within and outside of feminism, despite its seemingly political correctness as an alternative to “sex” (Olson 2012; Gunnarsson 2011). READ MORE

  6. 15. Do finances explain performance? : Relationship between financial performance and sports performance in Premier League and Allsvenskan.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Vincent Rylander; Petrus Lempinen; [2020]
    Keywords : Finance; comparative; quantitative; sports; football;

    Abstract : The topic of finance in football have drawn a great deal of attention, not least in the last twenty-five years. While many see football simply as a game, set up to amuse spectators or as a way for athletes to compete for becoming the number one, football has more to it than meets the eye. READ MORE