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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"Corpus based"”.
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A corpus-based stylistic study of newspaper English
This study is based on a corpus of 2400 clauses taken from British national newspapers in 1986 and stored in a computer database with each clause coded for a number of grammatical (and some semantic) features. These features relate to the verb phrase (e.g. finiteness), the clause (e.g. …
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A corpus based approach to generalise a chatbot system
… system, a tool to visualise the contents of a corpus and a tool to give answers to questions in a specific domain. Instead of being restricted to a specific domain or written language, a chatbot could be trained with any text in any language. Some of the differences between real human …
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L1 Acquisition of Japanese Particles: A Corpus-Based Study
<p>This dissertation is a comprehensive examination of L1 Japanese particle acquisition using two sets of corpora of naturalistic speech, JCHAT, longitudinal speech data of three Japanese children and the mothers (Miyata 2004a, b, and c, and MacWhinney 2000), and CHJ, adult-to-adult telephone …
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A Corpus-based Approach to Determining Standard American English
… in tests. This study shows the results of using corpus linguistics to answer questions about usage in standard American English.
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Corpus-based unit selection for natural-sounding speech synthesis
… or so, a recent trend toward a non-parametric, corpus-based approach has focused on using real human speech as source material for producing novel natural-sounding speech. This work proposes a communication-theoretic formulation in which unit selection is a noisy channel through which an input …
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The Semantics of Russian 'About' Prepositions: A Corpus-Based Study
… between 1890 and 2009, from the Russian National Corpus. The quantitative study consists of Fisher’s Exact tests performed on approximately 7,000 tokens (which consist of argument phrases with the ‘aboutness’ prepositions). Results indicate that in many instances, pro is associated with nouns …
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A corpus-based study of some linguistic features of metaphor
… linguistic expressions in non-literary corpus data. In this thesis I use corpus data to examine a number of polysemous lexemes and I attempt to establish whether their metaphorical meanings, the lexical relations holding between these meanings, and aspects of their collocational and …
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The syntax of verb phrases in Tonga: a corpus-based study
This study investigated the syntax of verb phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data was …
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The syntax of verb phrases in Tonga: a corpus-based study
This study investigated the syntax of verb phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data was …
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Corpus-Based pedagogy and English language teaching: Insights from the classroom
… sessions which highlighted principles of corpus linguistics, a group of three EFL teachers at the University of Central Lancashire were provided with knowledge of corpus linguistics principles with which they planned and delivered a series of corpus-based lessons to their groups of …
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Corpus-based machine translation evaluation via automated error detection in output texts
… that requires access only to the translation. Based on detailed corpus analyses, the primary aim is to devise methods for the automated detection of particular error types in French-English MT output from competing systems and to explore correlations between automated error counts and human …
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A corpus-based analysis of adjective suffix rivalry in the english language /
… to analyse adjective doublets in the English Web Corpus and the OED. The objectives to achieve the aim include exploring theoretical insights into adjectives and suffix rivalry, exploring the rivalry among adjectives-forming suffixes in order to identify the factors contributing to the …
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A corpus-based lexical and grammatical error identification: L2 learners academic writing
… writing. Errors were investigated and identified based on students’ 36 progress and final reports which were assembled from first year engineering students; named as the Learner Corpus Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia(LCUTHM). The LCUTHM was analyzed by means of linguistics Natural Language …
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Acquiring reading skills in a foreign language in a multilingual,corpus-based environment
… for foreign language learning within a web-based environment. Specifically, the reading model developed in this project, together with its practical implementation into a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environment, are designed to help adult speakers (language LI, here English) …
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Personal reference and politeness strategies in French and Spanish: a corpus-based approach
… values in the interest of faceprotection. Based on 5 qualitative methodology derived from the field of linguistic pragmatics applied to a corpus of naturally-oc:urring data of speech situations where there is threat to the face of speakers and hearers, this study will argue that the …
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From concord to lexicon : development and test of a corpus-based lexical tutor
… of a suitable interface (a concordance-based lexical tutor), and its testing with intermediate university students in Oman. The tutor exposes learners to 2400 words over two terms, the basic high-frequency words of English. The learners are lexicographers using the concordance to make a …
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A Corpus-based Comparison between the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary List
This study was a corpus-based comparison between two lists of academic words: Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) and Gardner and Davies’ (2014) Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). Comparisons were made between different types of lexical coverage provided by the AWL and the AVL in the …
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