Essays about: "lexical coverage"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words lexical coverage.

  1. 1. Context-aware Swedish Lexical Simplification : Using pre-trained language models to propose contextually fitting synonyms

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Emil Graichen; [2023]
    Keywords : automatic text simplification; lexical simplification; Swedish; BERT; GPT-3; evaluation dataset; synonymy;

    Abstract : This thesis presents the development and evaluation of context-aware Lexical Simplification (LS) systems for the Swedish language. In total three versions of LS models, LäsBERT, LäsBERT-baseline, and LäsGPT, were created and evaluated on a newly constructed Swedish LS evaluation dataset. READ MORE

  3. 2. Exploring the vocabulary content of upper secondary EFL textbooks in Sweden : A corpus-based analysis of types, lexical coverage,progression, and academic words

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Dianne Valize Garcia; [2023]
    Keywords : vocabulary study; Academic Word List; word families; lexical coverage; EFL in Sweden;

    Abstract : Vocabulary is considered the building block of language. Without it, communication breaks down. This degree project investigates the vocabulary types, progression, lexical coverage andacademic words in EFL upper secondary textbooks in Sweden. This was done by a corpus-based approach using corpus tools such as Range and AntWord Profiler. READ MORE

  4. 3. Grammatical Error Correction for Learners of Swedish as a Second Language

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Martina Nyberg; [2022]
    Keywords : grammatical error correction; swedish; machine translation; language modeling; machine learning;

    Abstract : Grammatical Error Correction refers to the task of automatically correcting errors in written text, typically with respect to texts written by learners of a second language. The work in this thesis implements and evaluates two methods to Grammatical Error Correction for Swedish. READ MORE

  5. 4. Amammerɛ ne Amanneɛ: Towards the indigenisation of the sociology of law concept of norms

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Thomas Labik Amanquandor; [2020]
    Keywords : Amammerɛ; Amanneɛ; Norms; Ashanti; Akan; Twi; Social control; Ghana; Sociology of law; Norm perspective; Saayɔ; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The global coverage of sociology of law (SoL) has remained limited to the Western world, due to the difficult and problematic application of its current theories and concepts in non-Western societies. Thus, the sociology of law norm concept was studied in relation to the culture of Ashanti people of Ghana. READ MORE

  6. 5. Colexification and semantic change in colour terms in Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European languages

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Kajsa Söderqvist; [2017]
    Keywords : colour terms; semantic change; etymology; lexical semantic change; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Colour terms is a highly interesting field when investigating linguistic universals and how language vary cross-linguistically. Colour semantics, the investigation of the meaning of colour, consists in largely of two opposing sides: the universalists, proposing that colour terms are universal (Berlin & Kay 1969) and the relativists claiming a variation in meaning cross-linguistically (Wierzbicka 2008). READ MORE