Essays about: "applied linguistic"
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1. Identity Changes for Iraqi Employees in Multinational Corporations Using English as the Lingua Franca
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : With the help of this study, I aim to understand how Iraqi employees whose first language is Arabic, deal with situations where they have to speak English in their workplace, and how their identity changes. Through this study, a better understanding of how people go through and experience such a drastic change in their daily lives. READ MORE
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2. Syntax-based Concept Alignment for Machine Translation
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknikAbstract : This thesis presents a syntax-based approach to Concept Alignment (CA), the task of finding semantical correspondences between parts of multilingual parallel texts, with a focus on Machine Translation (MT). Two variants of CA are taken into account: Concept Extraction (CE), whose aim is to identify new concepts by means of mere linguistic comparison, and Concept Propagation (CP), which consists in looking for the translation equivalents of a set of known concepts in a new language. READ MORE
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3. Detection of insurance fraud using NLP and ML
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikAbstract : Machine-Learning can sometimes see things we as humans can not. In this thesis we evaluated three different Natural Language Procces-techniques: BERT, word2vec and linguistic analysis (UDPipe), on their performance in detecting insurance fraud based on transcribed audio from phone calls (referred to as audio data) and written text (referred to as text-form data), related to insurance claims. READ MORE
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4. Speech Classification using Acoustic embedding and Large Language Models Applied on Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction Task
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Alzheimer’s sjukdom är en neurodegenerativ sjukdom som leder till demens. Den kan börja tyst i de tidiga stadierna och fortsätta under åren till en allvarlig och obotlig fas. Språkstörningar uppstår ofta som ett av de tidiga symptomen och kan till slut leda till fullständig mutism i de avancerade stadierna av sjukdomen. READ MORE
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5. Identifying Linguistic Variants in Middle Low German : Using tools from Data Science and Natural Language Processing to automate the analysis of Middle Low German texts
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologiAbstract : During the 15th century, the printing press was introduced to Germany, and Europe as a whole. It has long been believed that standardization of the written language came as a direct consequence of this invention, but the studies supporting this theory are small in scale. READ MORE