Essays about: "Corpus study"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 447 essays containing the words Corpus study.

1. 1. Writer/Reader Visibility in EFL Writing : A Corpus-based Analysis of Young Swedish Students' Writing Development

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Francis Mwangi; [2024]
   Keywords : Corpus Linguistics; Writer Reader Visibility; English as a Foreign Language; Language Development; Second Language Writing;

   Abstract : This corpus-based study explores writer-reader visibility (WRV) features in the writing by young Swedish learners of English. Specifically, using Petch-Tyson’s (1998) framework, this study examines the use of WRV features in essays written by young Swedish learners in lower and upper secondary school, and compares their use to that of Swedish university-level learners. READ MORE

3. 2. Exploring the Impact of Genre on Syntactic and Lexical Complexity in L2 Written English

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Caitlyn Taylor; [2024]
   Keywords : SLA; EFL; lexical complexity; syntactic complexity;

   Abstract : The present study investigates the effect of genre on lexical and syntactic complexity. The corpus used for this study is made up of argumentative and narrative texts from the TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) online corpus. The study analyses texts written by 22 Norwegian EFL learners, 10 in year 8 and 12 in year 9. READ MORE

4. 3. Reporting Trends in Sustainability and Climate Change Discourse : A corpus study about reporting verbs in global news

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Pontus Jaktlund Gunnarsson; [2024]
   Keywords : Corpus; Linguistics; Reporting Verbs; Media; Metonymy; Quantitative Analysis; Qualitative Analysis.;

   Abstract : In news reports, journalists often make references to what spokespersons from public organizations have announced. While doing so, reporting verbs are not an uncommon occurrence (Li, Zhao & Lou, 2023: 2). READ MORE

5. 4. Topics and Attitudes in COVID-19 Online News Comments about Italy and Sweden. Appraisal Framework applied to Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis

   University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Author : Niklas Danielson; Arianna De Luca; [2023-11-22]
   Keywords : Online News Comments; COVID-19; CADA; Appraisal Framework; Corpus Linguistics;

   Abstract : This study conducts a mixed-methods, comparative study of online news comments. The subject of the articles were the two countries of Sweden and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE

6. 5. Data Augmentation: Enhancing Named Entity Recognition Performance on Swedish Medical Texts

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

   Author : Lucas Rosvall; Niklas Paasonen; [2023-10-05]
   Keywords : Machine Learning; Information Extraction; Named Entity Recognition; BERT; Data Augmentation;

   Abstract : Named Entity Recognition (NER) refers to the task of locating relevant information within text sequences. Within the medical domain, it can benefit applications such as de-identifying patient records or extracting valuable data for other downstream tasks. READ MORE