Essays about: "Diachronic"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 65 essays containing the word Diachronic.

  1. 16. A Study of Semantic Change in the Word viral

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Eldar Jusovic; [2022]
    Keywords : Semantics; Semantic change; Diachronic change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis; viral; WWW; dictionaries;

    Abstract : With diachronic corpus over the time periods, I selected a word that might be suitable for this type of study for detecting if potential semantic changes have occurred. In this study, I explored the lexical semantics of the word viral to see if the World Wide Web (WWW) has influenced the word. READ MORE

  3. 17. WANNA BE ON TOP? The Hyperparameter Search for Semantic Change's Next Top Model

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

    Author : Kate Viloria; [2021-09-22]
    Keywords : semantic change; language change; diachronic word embeddings;

    Abstract : Lexical semantic change (LSC) detection through the use of diachronic corpora and computational methods continues to be a prevalent research area in language change (Tahmasebi et al., 2018). READ MORE

  4. 18. L2 Japanese: Swedish students’ usage of first-person pronouns

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Lisa Bendall; [2021-02-03]
    Keywords : japanska; Japanese; L2 learning; first-person pronoun; questionnaire;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to look at L2 (learning as a second language) students’ usage of first-person singular pronouns, and to discern in what situations (if any) they are changed. The Japanese language has a great variety of first-person pronouns, one of the few languages to possess this feature. READ MORE

  5. 19. Investigating Gender Bias in Word Embeddings for Chinese

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Meichun Jiao; [2021]
    Keywords : word embedding; gender bias; Chinese;

    Abstract : Gender bias, a sociological issue, has attracted the attention of scholars working on natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. It is confirmed that some NLP techniques like word embedding could capture gender bias in natural language. Here, we investigate gender bias in Chinese word embeddings. READ MORE

  6. 20. "No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police" : A diachronic comparative study and analysis of the power relations revealed in French media discourses

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Julie Alves Canteiro; [2021]
    Keywords : Police violence; power relations; racial profiling; media and communication; France;

    Abstract : On May 26th, 2020, the world was shocked after learning that George Floyd had died at the hands of the police while being wrongfully arrested. Protests took place worldwide, demanding justice for Floyd as well as the end of the systematic racism present institutionally in police forces. READ MORE