Essays about: "english dictionary"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 38 essays containing the words english dictionary.

1. 6. Words and Meaning in Gaming : 'World of Warcraft' and 'Counterstrike Global Offensive'

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk

   Author : Joakim Sund; [2020]
   Keywords : World of Warcraft; Counterstrike; game language; vocabulary; acronyms; speech; World of Warcraft; Counterstrike; spelspråk; vokabulär; akronymer; tal;

   Abstract : Online gaming is a relatively modern phenomenon that is not older than 20 years. Most online players speak English in some form, either by talking or writing. The two games, 'World of Warcraft' and 'Counterstrike' have taken over the gaming-world and the gamers' language has found its way right into the dictionary. READ MORE

3. 7. When Literary Prose Meets Television : Comparing the vocabulary of A Song of Ice and Fire to Game of Thrones

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sabur Kiflemariam; [2020]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This paper compares the vocabulary used in the first seven episodes of Game of Thrones by television network HBO, to its source material, the 1996 novel A Game of Thrones. In particular, three questions were investigated; which medium uses the most frequent vocabulary, which medium makes most use of older words, and what do these findings imply with regards English language learning. READ MORE

4. 8. Text and Speech Alignment Methods for Speech Translation Corpora Creation : Augmenting English LibriVox Recordings with Italian Textual Translations

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Giuseppe Della Corte; [2020]
   Keywords : speech translation; parallel corpora; bilingual sentence alignment; sentence embeddings; cosine similarity; forced alignment; text collection; corpora creation; audio signal processing;

   Abstract : The recent uprise of end-to-end speech translation models requires a new generation of parallel corpora, composed of a large amount of source language speech utterances aligned with their target language textual translations. We hereby show a pipeline and a set of methods to collect hundreds of hours of English audio-book recordings and align them with their Italian textual translations, using exclusively public domain resources gathered semi-automatically from the web. READ MORE

5. 9. Word Segmentation for Classification of Text

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

   Author : Anusha Anusha; [2019]
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   Abstract : Compounding is a highly productive word-formation process in some languages that is often problematic for natural language processing applications. Word segmentation is the problem of splitting a string of written language into its component words. READ MORE

6. 10. Eurocentrism and Hybridity in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Author : Sandra Lindgren; [2019]
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