Essays about: "word parts"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 83 essays containing the words word parts.

  1. 1. And Action! : A Study of the Semantic Domains of Action through Interpretation of Metaphor

    University essay from

    Author : Henrik Westerdahl; [2023]
    Keywords : Semantic domain; Semantic dimension; Semantic pattern; Metaphor; Body in metaphor;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is determining and describing some of the semantic domains of the concept of action. Action belongs to the type of abstract nouns with unclear semantic domains. In other words, there are difficulties in determining the precise semantic patterns that the word ‘action’ refers to. READ MORE

  3. 2. Identifying Linguistic Variants in Middle Low German : Using tools from Data Science and Natural Language Processing to automate the analysis of Middle Low German texts

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Lovisa Eriksson; William Brenham Hooper; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : During the 15th century, the printing press was introduced to Germany, and Europe as a whole. It has long been believed that standardization of the written language came as a direct consequence of this invention, but the studies supporting this theory are small in scale. READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Analysing the possibilities of a needs-based house configurator

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik

    Author : Roman Ermolaev; [2023]
    Keywords : Needs-based; Configurator; House configurator; CNN; BERT; DistilBERT; Swedish;

    Abstract : A needs-based configurator is a system or tool that assists users in customizing products based on their specific needs. This thesis investigates the challenges of obtaining data for a needs-based machine learning house configurator and identifies suitable models for its implementation. READ MORE

  6. 5. Making the Old New Again : A Corpus Analysis of Semantic Change in Contemporary American English Slang

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Matthew Gallaher; [2023]
    Keywords : semantics; semantic change; corpus studies; corpus linguistics; slang; collocates; context analysis;

    Abstract : This study used a combination of historical and contemporary corpora to investigate semantic change within the contemporary American English slang words swag, flex, and swole. This study involved two parts. READ MORE