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1. A Rule-Based Normalization System for Greek Noisy User-Generated Text
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : The ever-growing usage of social media platforms generates daily vast amounts of textual data which could potentially serve as a great source of information. Therefore, mining user-generated data for commercial, academic, or other purposes has already attracted the interest of the research community. READ MORE
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2. Automatic phonological transcription using forced alignment : FAVE toolkit performance on four non-standard varieties of English
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Forced alignment, a speech recognition software performing semi-automatic phonological transcription, constitutes a methodological revolution in the recent history of linguistic research. Its use is progressively becoming the norm in research fields such as sociophonetics, but its general performance and range of applications have been relatively understudied. READ MORE
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3. Non-Standard "-ed" Forms of Selected Irreguslar Verbs: A Corpus-based Study of Present-day American English
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This is a corpus-based study which aims to survey the parallel use of non-standard preterit and past participle "-ed" forms in a group of irregular verbs (namely "blow", "grow", "know", and "throw") in Present-day American English and to determine in what media, style registers, and text types such non-standard verb forms occur. The data for this analysis is provided by the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which comprises texts from the period of 1990 - 2010. READ MORE