Essays about: "scope of English language"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 22 essays containing the words scope of English language.
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6. Online news media framing of the 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This thesis critically analyses the language and images used by international online news media to represent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021. In total, 270 online news headlines and featured lead images, published on the English news websites of Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN, are analyzed. READ MORE
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7. A Method for the Assisted Translation of QA Datasets Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : This thesis presents a method which reduces the amount of labour required to translate the English question answering dataset SQuAD into Swedish. The purpose of the study is to contribute to shrinking the gap between natural language processing research in English and research in lesser-resourced languages by providing a method for creating datasets in these languages which are counterparts to those used in English. READ MORE
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8. Swedish compulsory school students’ attitudes toward English accents: Exploring how familiarity affects our language attitudes
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This study will explore to what extent familiarity with English accents can influence compulsory school students’ attitudes towards them. Data from questionnaires completed by 98 students were analysed. The results show that the degree of familiarity with the English accent seems to affect the attitude attributed to it. READ MORE
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9. Exploring Emerging Entities and Named Entity Disambiguation in News Articles
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Interaktiva och kognitiva systemAbstract : Publicly editable knowledge bases such as Wikipedia and Wikidata have over the years grown tremendously in size. Despite the quick growth, they can never be fully complete due to the continuous stream of events happening in the world. READ MORE
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10. A Study in Flim-Flam: Reduplicative Ablaut Ideophones in English
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In this study I analysed reduplicative ablaut ideophones in English for their morphosyntactical properties, as ideophones in other languages have been found to have several marked characteristics in this respect. Informed by the typology of ideophones in other languages, my research questions were whether the reduplicatives would appear integrated into or outside of sentences, if they would fill functions associated with traditional word classes, whether they would inflect and derive like other words, and if they would be limited to declarative type sentences and resist negation. READ MORE