Essays about: "language standard"

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1. 6. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
   Keywords : Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

   Abstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE

3. 7. “Establishing a Business in Sweden: Motivations and Challenges for Immigrants” - A case study of South Asian Immigrant

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Rima Arzuman; [2023-07-19]
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   Abstract : Background Sweden has been one of the most popular destinations for immigrants from South Asia in recent years due to its strong economy and high standard of living. However, establishing a business in Sweden can be challenging for immigrants due to cultural differences, language barriers, and a lack of knowledge about Swedish business practices. READ MORE

4. 8. IŻ SWÓJ JĘZYK MAJĄ! An exploration of the computational methods for identifying language variation in Polish

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Maria Irena Szawerna; [2023-06-19]
   Keywords : language variation; Polish; diachronic linguistics; part-of-speech tagging; lemmatization; corpus linguistics;

   Abstract : Computational approaches to language variation continue to contribute in a relevant way to various fields, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistics. Being able to accommodate variation within natural language increases the robustness of NLP models and their usefulness in real-life applications; simultaneously, detecting and describing variation and trends that govern it is one of the main goals of sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, meaning that some of the advances in NLP can contribute to these fields as well. READ MORE

5. 9. Syntax-based Concept Alignment for Machine Translation

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

   Author : Arianna Masciolini; [2023-03-30]
   Keywords : computational linguistic; machine translation; concept alignment; syntax; dependency parsing; Universal Dependencies; Grammatical Framework;

   Abstract : 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

6. 10. Exploring co-teaching through teachers' perspective in primary education in Greece

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Amalia-Eleftheria Tsaganou; [2023-02-16]
   Keywords : social constructivism; co-teaching; parallel support; inclusion; teachers’ perceptions;

   Abstract : Aim: This study aims to examine the socially constructed nature of co-teaching through the perceptions of a pair of teachers who worked together in an inclusive classroom. This study focuses on the elementary level of education in Greece. Theory: Social constructivism builds the theoretical framework for this research. READ MORE