Essays about: "grammatical number"

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1. 1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
   Keywords : Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

   Abstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE

3. 2. Syntax-based Concept Alignment for Machine Translation

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

   Author : Arianna Masciolini; [2023-03-30]
   Keywords : computational linguistic; machine translation; concept alignment; syntax; dependency parsing; Universal Dependencies; Grammatical Framework;

   Abstract : This thesis presents a syntax-based approach to Concept Alignment (CA), the task of finding semantical correspondences between parts of multilingual parallel texts, with a focus on Machine Translation (MT). Two variants of CA are taken into account: Concept Extraction (CE), whose aim is to identify new concepts by means of mere linguistic comparison, and Concept Propagation (CP), which consists in looking for the translation equivalents of a set of known concepts in a new language. READ MORE

4. 3. Multilingual Text Robots for Abstract Wikipedia – Using Grammatical Framework to generate multilingual articles on Swedish localities

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

   Author : Omar Diriye; Filip Folkesson; Erik NIlsson; Felix NIlsson; William NIlsson; Dylan Osolian; [2023-03-03]
   Keywords : Text robot; Natural Language Generation; Grammatical Framework; Multilingual Natural Language Generation; Abstract Wikipedia; Wikidata;

   Abstract : The vast amount of Wikipedia articles and languages has resulted in a high cost of Wikipedia, i.e. the required time and dedication for making every article available in every language. READ MORE

5. 4. Processing Predicate NPs: An EEG study

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

   Author : Ann Hermansson; [2023]
   Keywords : pronoun resolution; agreement attraction; nominal predicates; EEG; ERPs; P600; anterior negativity; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Theories on discourse accessibility and givenness suggest that nominal discourse entities vary with regard to how likely they are to act as antecedents to anaphoric expressions. Many factors are thought to affect the accessibility of a nominal entity in the mental model, including its morphosyntactic form and grammatical role. READ MORE

6. 5. THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF WIKIPEDIA A multilingual analysis and comparison of the language used in Wikipedia articles

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Patricia Grau Francitorra; [2022-06-20]
   Keywords : Abstract Wikipedia; Syntactic Analysis; Universal Dependencies; Grammatical Framework; UDPipe 2.0; Syntactic Patterns;

   Abstract : Wikipedia is a great source of knowledge, but due to its open-collaboration nature, it presents some limitations. Namely, the uneven distribution of content, the low overlap in topic coverage, the differences in the comprehensiveness of articles, and the low number of editors. READ MORE