Essays about: "English student writings"

Found 4 essays containing the words English student writings.

  1. 1. A Lexical Comparison Using Word Embedding Mapping from an Academic Word Usage Perspective

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Xuemei Cai; [2020]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis applies the word embedding mapping approach to make a lexical comparison from academic word usage perspective. We aim to demonstrate the differences in academic word usage between a corpus of student writings and a corpus of academic English, as well as a corpus of student writings and social media texts. READ MORE

  2. 2. Spelling Normalization of English Student Writings

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Yuchan HONG; [2018]
    Keywords : spelling normalization; English student writings; phonetic similarity comparison; Levenshtein edit distance; character-based statistical machine translation; character-based neural machine translation;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 3. From China to England : A comparison between Lao She's ErMa and contemporary travel writings by travellers to China and Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kinesiska

    Author : Evelina Bengtsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Lao She; ErMa; travel writing; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : 本文主要探讨中国作家老舍的小说作品《二马》,主要描述两位中国人在二十世纪初 客居英国的生活与遭遇, 包括了许多中国人和英国人相互之间所存在的文化差异与偏 见。本文将针对《二马》中所描绘的文化差异与偏见, 与二十世纪初到过中国和欧洲 旅行者所著作的非小说类作品进行比较,以判断这些文化差异与偏见是来自于老舍个 人写作的想像,还是在当时可能是真实存在的。.. READ MORE

  4. 4. Liability for Pure Economic Loss in English and Swedish Law of Tort - a comparative analysis with special regard to problems concerning misrepresentation in non-contractual relations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Linn Wredström; [2004]
    Keywords : Komparativ rätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : According to Chapter 2 Section 2 of the Swedish Tort Liability Act, pure economic loss arising in non-contractual relations shall be compensated if the tortfeasor has caused the loss through the commission of a crime. Although never intended, until recently, the general view was that in the absence of legislation, damages could only be awarded for pure economic loss outside contractual relations if suffered in connection with a crime. READ MORE