Essays about: "adjectives in texts"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words adjectives in texts.
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1. Form-focused or meaning-focused? : Grammar tasks in EFL textbooks for English 5 in upper secondary school
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : This paper investigates what role grammar plays, what grammatical content is included, and whether focus on form or meaning dominates in six EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks for English 5. Through the methodology content analysis, the grammatical content is calculated, categorized, and analyzed with coding frames in three parts: form-focused instruction and grammar tasks and meaning-focused instruction and grammar tasks, context, and grammatical categories. READ MORE
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2. Topic modeling on a classical Swedish text corpus of prose fiction : Hyperparameters’ effect on theme composition and identification of writing style
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionenAbstract : A topic modeling method, smoothed Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is applied on a text corpus data of classical Swedish prose fiction. The thesis consists of two parts. READ MORE
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3. AUTOMATED GENDER CLASSIFICATION IN WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHIESa cross-lingual comparison
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskapAbstract : The written word plays an important role in the reinforcement of gender stereotypes, especially in texts of a more formal character. Wikipedia biographies have a lot of information about famous people, but do they describe men and women with different kinds of words? This thesis aims to evaluate and explore a method for gender classification of text. READ MORE
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4. What may or may not be certain : A Study of the Translation of Hedging Devices from English to Swedish in a Non-Fiction Text
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Hedges, or hedging devices, are strategies that the writer or speaker can use in order to convey probability, impreciseness or vagueness. Hedges can appear in most parts of speech, for example as adjectives, adverbs or modal or lexical verbs. This study investigates the translation of hedging devices in a non-fiction text from English to Swedish. READ MORE
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5. Classification of Fiction Genres : Text classification of fiction texts from Project Gutenberg
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och ITAbstract : Stylometric analysis in text classification is most often used in authorship attribution studies. This thesis used a machine learning algorithm, the Naive Bayes Classifier, in a text classification task comparing stylometric and lexical features. READ MORE