Essays about: "semicolon"

Found 2 essays containing the word semicolon.

  1. 1. It’s no laughing matter! The changing use of the semicolon and its application in various genres

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Magnus Boström; [2023]
    Keywords : punctuation; semicolon; linguistics; prescriptivism; grammar; syntax; prosody;

    Abstract : The function of the semicolon has changed considerably since the 15th century, from primarily indicating the length of a pause, to providing syntactic information. According to prescriptive grammar, the semicolon is used to join independent clauses and to avoid complexity by separating items in a list. READ MORE

  3. 2. Period Drama : Punctuation restoration in Swedish through fine- tuned KB-BERT

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : John Sinderwing; [2021]
    Keywords : NLP; Transformer; punctuation restoration; BERT; KB-BERT; machine learning; neural network; NLP; Transformer; återinföring av skiljetecken; BERT; KB-BERT; maskininlärning; neurala nätverk;

    Abstract : Presented here is a method for automatic punctuation restoration in Swedish using a BERT model. The method is based on KB-BERT, a publicly available, neural network language model pre-trained on a Swedish corpus by National Library of Sweden. This model has then been fine-tuned for this specific task using a corpus of government texts. READ MORE