Essays about: "Somali"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 75 essays containing the word Somali.

  1. 11. North-South entanglements in Somali-Swedish family language policy : Practices, ideologies and everyday challenges

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Juliana Neves Lindgren; [2023]
    Keywords : decoloniality; family language policy; identity; language ideologies; language maintenance; language practices; multilingualism; Somali;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the family language policies (FLP) of two Somali-Swedish families living in Rinkeby, Stockholm. It focuses on the relationships between FLP and identity construction in different social spaces. READ MORE

  3. 12. EVALUATING THE EXTENT OF ETHNIC BIASES IN FINBERT AND EXPLORING DEBIASING TECHNIQUES

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

    Author : Minerva Suvanto; [2022-10-07]
    Keywords : language model; BERT; FinBERT; bias; debias;

    Abstract : Language models are becoming increasingly popular. These models can contain social biases about various groups of people in them. The reproduction of biased beliefs can have harmful impacts on the groups they are about. We explore the extent of ethnic biases in the Finnish language model FinBERT. READ MORE

  4. 13. Exploring the Everyday Experiences of African Migrant Entrepreneurs in Malmö, Sweden.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Aisha Mugo; [2022]
    Keywords : African migrant entrepreneurs; networking; embeddedness; everyday; Malmö;

    Abstract : Entrepreneurship is a common choice of occupation amongst migrants in Malmö. African migrant entrepreneur experiences however, are identified as homogenous to other immigrant groups. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Changing Attitudes Towards Traditional Gender Roles vis-à-vis Women of the Somali Diaspora : A Qualitative Analysis of How Migration has Championed for the Empowerment of Somali Diaspora Women Since 1991

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

    Author : Naima Ali; [2022]
    Keywords : political motherhood; somali diaspora; somali women;

    Abstract : Somali women have suffered at the hands of the patriarchy for as long as they have known. It is well established that the civil war in 1991 created irreparable damage to the Somali people. Nevertheless, it opened doors for women to experience autonomy for the first time. READ MORE

  6. 15. Improving BERTScore for Machine Translation Evaluation Through Contrastive Learning

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Oreen Yousuf; [2022]
    Keywords : machine translation; evaluation; BERTScore; contrastive learning; SimCSE; Hausa; Somali; Chinese;

    Abstract : Since the advent of automatic evaluation, tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP), including Machine Translation, have been able to better utilize both time and labor resources. Later, multilingual pre-trained models (MLMs)have uplifted many languages’ capacity to participate in NLP research. READ MORE