Essays about: "improvement standard english"
Found 5 essays containing the words improvement standard english.
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1. A good international citizen? Examining the cause of the Netherlands’ willingness to repatriate colonial heritages
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Many former colonial powers have been reluctant to return cultural heritages acquired during colonial context for various reasons. The Netherlands is a unique example where it is willing to repatriate cultural heritages acquired in colonial context back to its original country unconditionally. READ MORE
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2. Spelling Normalization of English Student Writings
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Spelling normalization is the task to normalize non-standard words into standard words in texts, resulting in a decrease in out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in texts for natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as information retrieval, machine translation, and opinion mining, improving the performance of various NLP applications on normalized texts. In this thesis, we explore different methods for spelling normalization of English student writings including traditional Levenshtein edit distance comparison, phonetic similarity comparison, character-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and character-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods. READ MORE
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3. “I never thought about those rules in all my languages” : A comparative study of teaching the English articles in the multilingual classroom from a monolingual or a multilingual approach
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This study is conducted to compare the effect of practicing a multilingual approach to a monolingual approach in teaching the English article system for students with multilingual backgrounds. Through a structured experiment in light of sociolinguistic and second language acquisition theories, two different discourses (complexes of signs and practices that organize social existence and social reproduction) structuring different legitimate languages are implemented in each respective approach. READ MORE
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4. Energy mapping of public buildings : A study at Älvkarlebyhus
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknikAbstract : The aim of this report is to identify all energy systems in the Skutskärs Vårdcentral and Folktandvården building, Centralgatan 12 building and the Library building to be studied in this report and carry out an investigation on whether the energy systems efficiency may be increased by improving on the elements or factors that affect the energy systems. A model of the buildings energy systems were created in Microsoft excels using the steady state method and modifying it to calculate an average heating session. READ MORE
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5. Lund University Website Evaluation: Focus on homepage and English research pages
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för informatikAbstract : The present universities have their own websites to achieve academic goals, and for this reason, the process of maintaining a high quality and effective website is vital for a university to strengthen its unpredictable creativity and entrepreneurialism. The aim of this study was to develop and validate university website usability, quality and performance, especially focuses on English homepage and research pages. READ MORE
