Essays about: "word senses"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words word senses.
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1. Change in the Meaning of the Word Cool : A study comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : The aim of this thesis was to study change in the meaning of the word cool, comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s. Examples where the word cool was used were obtained from the Corpus of Historical American English, which is created by Mark Davies, and analyzed in terms of in which senses and text types they were used. READ MORE
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2. Endogenic Production : subjective matter and bodily involvement
University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & MöbeldesignAbstract : The word endogenic means growing or proceeding from within, it is commonly used to describe the process of tectonic movement and earth crust formation caused by the extrusion of magmatic material. My project is a metaphorical exploration of the geological term “endogenic process” as well as an exploration of a design approach based on the term. READ MORE
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3. Analyzing the Anisotropy Phenomenon in Transformer-based Masked Language Models
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : In this thesis, we examine the anisotropy phenomenon in popular masked language models, BERT and RoBERTa, in detail. We propose a possible explanation for this unreasonable phenomenon. READ MORE
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4. Bug Report: A Study of Semantic Change during the Digital Revolution
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Semantic change is a phenomenon that has been subject to a lot of research during the past few decades. However, a large part of the existing research has been conducted with the goal of finding causes of change or creating typologies in order to classify different types of changes. READ MORE
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5. Detecting Lexical Semantic Change Using Probabilistic Gaussian Word Embeddings
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : In this work, we test two novel methods of using word embeddings to detect lexical semantic change, attempting to overcome limitations associated with conventional approaches to this problem. Using a diachronic corpus spanning over a hundred years, we generate word embeddings for each decade with the intention of evaluating how meaning changes are represented in embeddings for the same word across time. READ MORE
