Essays about: "Standard English"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 122 essays containing the words Standard English.

  1. 11. Re-ranking search results with KB-BERT

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Bjarki Viðar Kristjánsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Natural language processing; Information retrieval; BERT; KB-BERT; Search evaluation; Naturlig språkbehandling; Informationssökning; BERT; KB-BERT; Sökutvärdering;

    Abstract : This master thesis aims to determine if a Swedish BERT model can improve a BM25 search by re-ranking the top search results. We compared a standard BM25 search algorithm with a more complex algorithm composed of a BM25 search followed by re-ranking the top 10 results by a BERT model. READ MORE

  3. 12. Including Varieties of English in Teaching: A Survey of Teachers’ Practices in Swedish Upper Secondary School

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Daniel Pettersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Varieties of English; English Language Teaching; Syllabus; English as a Global Language; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : English teachers in Swedish upper secondary school often focus on Standard British and American English, although they agree with the syllabus that different varieties of English should be included in teaching. This study aimed to investigate to what extent English teachers include different varieties of English in the classroom. READ MORE

  4. 13. Non-Standard Article Use in Pakistani English : An Attitudinal Study

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Ninni Bergström; [2022]
    Keywords : World Englishes; Pakistani English; non-standard article use; language attitudes;

    Abstract : This essay explores Pakistani English teachers’ attitudes towards non-standard article use in Pakistani English. It uses the theories of Kachru (1985), Modiano (1999a, 1999b, 2020) and Schneider (2003, 2007) on World Englishes as well as previous research on Pakistani English. READ MORE

  5. 14. Assessing English Proficiency in the Age of Globalization : The Case of IELTS

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Bahman Mehraban; [2022]
    Keywords : Globalization; General Training IELTS; LOCNESS Corpus; Coh-Metrix;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use and relevance of the most widely used test of English proficiency in the era of globalization, i.e. IELTS. It discusses different versions of the test along with their corresponding components. READ MORE

  6. 15. Automatic Annotation of Speech: Exploring Boundaries within Forced Alignment for Swedish and Norwegian

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Klaudia Biczysko; [2022]
    Keywords : forced alignment; automatic speech recognition; ASR; natural language processing; under-resourced languages; Swedish; Norwegian; CTC segmentation; wav2vec2; kaldi; HTK; dynamic time warping;

    Abstract : In Automatic Speech Recognition, there is an extensive need for time-aligned data. Manual speech segmentation has been shown to be more laborious than manual transcription, especially when dealing with tens of hours of speech. READ MORE