Essays about: "standard spelling"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words standard spelling.
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1. Spelling Normalization of English Student Writings
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Spelling normalization is the task to normalize non-standard words into standard words in texts, resulting in a decrease in out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in texts for natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as information retrieval, machine translation, and opinion mining, improving the performance of various NLP applications on normalized texts. In this thesis, we explore different methods for spelling normalization of English student writings including traditional Levenshtein edit distance comparison, phonetic similarity comparison, character-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and character-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods. READ MORE
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2. Unsupervised Normalisation of Historical Spelling : A Multilingual Evaluation
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Historical texts are an important resource for researchers in the humanities. However, standard NLP tools typically perform poorly on them, mainly due to the spelling variations present in such texts. One possible solution is to normalise the spelling variations to equivalent contemporary word forms before using standard tools. READ MORE
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3. Does technology make us poor spellers? The effects of CMC on standard spelling
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : In this digital era, technology has been accused of causing declining language standards. However, not much research has been put forth to support this claim. Therefore, this literature review seeks to examine current studies investigating the impact of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) on standard spelling. READ MORE
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4. Performing Poetry - A Linguistic Study of Benjamin Zephaniah’s "Propa Propaganda"
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The aim of this study is to examine the extent and type of non-standard language use in Benjamin Zephaniah’s poetry collection Propa Propaganda. It also investigates variables such as identity, situation and style by comparing the poet’s artistic language use with his speech in other contexts such as a debate and a speech. READ MORE
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5. "Nobel Prize kind of stuff. Fo’ sho." An Analysis of the English Found in Food Blogs
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay examines the frequency of Non-Standard English variants in six American food blogs in relation to gender and contents. The blog posts and commentaries of each blog were thoroughly analyzed to discern the frequency of Non-Standard variants. READ MORE