Essays about: "Contrastive analysis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 essays containing the words Contrastive analysis.

  1. 1. English Word Order in Written Production of Swedish Students

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap

    Author : Mohammad Taherinasab; [2023-05-11]
    Keywords : Error Analysis EA ; Contrastive Analysis CA ; Second Language Acquisition SLA ; EFL learners; word order;

    Abstract : This study investigates English word order errors in the written production of Swedish junior high school students. It analyzes 24 essays written by the 9th-grade students in a junior high school in Sweden in the spring semester of 2022. READ MORE

  2. 2. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

  3. 3. Understanding the Robustnessof Self Supervised Representations

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik

    Author : Johan Rodahl Holmgren; [2023]
    Keywords : Self-Supervision; AI; Robustness; Computer-Vision;

    Abstract : This work investigates the robustness of learned representations of self-supervised learn-ing approaches, focusing on distribution shifts in computer vision. Joint embedding architecture and method-based self-supervised learning approaches have shown advancesin learning representations in a label-free manner and efficient knowledge transfer towardreducing human annotation needs. READ MORE

  4. 4. A contrastive study on the translation of hyphenated compounds in fashion writing

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Jennifer Tobiasson; [2023]
    Keywords : English; explicitation; fashion writing; hyphenated compounds; simplification; Swedish; translation; translation strategies; translation universals;

    Abstract : This study examines the translation of hyphenated compounds from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text about fashion. The translation is performed by the author of this study, which is important to keep in mind. READ MORE

  5. 5. Anomaly Detection with Machine Learning using CLIP in a Video Surveillance Context

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Datorseende

    Author : Christoffer Gärdin; [2023]
    Keywords : Datorseende; maskininlärning; CLIP; anomalidetektion; videoövervakning;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the application of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP), a vision-language model, in an automated video surveillance system for anomaly detection. The ability of CLIP to perform zero-shot learning, coupled with its robustness against minor image alterations due to its lack of reliance on pixel-level image analysis, makes it a suitable candidate for this application. READ MORE