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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Corpus-Based Approach"”.
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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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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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Personal reference and politeness strategies in French and Spanish: a corpus-based approach
… in its use and interpretation. While previous approaches to this area have sought to assign one interpretation to a given pronominal use, this study seeks to show how speakers and hearers can exploit a multiplicity of potential values in the interest of faceprotection. Based on 5 qualitative …
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The representation and distribution of conjunctions in selected Sepedi home language textbooks : a corpus-based Investigation
… Sepedi conjunctions between Specialised Sepedi Corpus and General Sepedi Corpus. The study investigated the syntactic and semantic features of six selected Sepedi conjunctions as observed between Specialised Sepedi Corpus and General Sepedi Corpus. Furthermore, the study sought to determine …
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The use of <i>fuck</i>: A sociolinguistic approach to the usage of <i>fuck</i> in the BNC and blog authorship corpus
<p>The present study is a corpus-based approach using both the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Blog Authorship Corpus (BAC) to identify variance in spoken use of <em>fuck</em> between genders, age groups, and social classes. The resulting analysis shows that there is little variance in use …
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Infinitival verb complementation: Theory and usage as a basis for pedagogy
… Secondary goals include the development of a corpus-based approach to determining pedagogical priorities in teaching a given set of structures and the development of a methodology using the computer to process a corpus of naturally occurring word processed documents. The secondary goals are …
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Computational Production of Affect-Based Verbal Humorous Expressions
… the appropriate substitution. We have chosen a corpus-based approach, in line with a tendency prevailing in the computational linguistics field. A number of textual corpora and dictionaries were employed. We have developed some of these resources (WordNet-Affect and Affective-Weight) in an early …
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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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-ing words in RBMT: multilingual evaluation and exploration of pre- and post-processing solutions
… solutions for improvement of their MT output. A corpus-based approach for a better representation of the domain-specific structures where -ing words occur is used. After selecting a significant sample, the -ing words are classified following a functional categorisation presented by Izquierdo …
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Language Contact and Inner-Syriac Developments: Lexical Study of the Peshitta Genesis
This thesis argues in favour of a corpus-based lexical analysis of the Peshitta by identifying language contact (Aramaic-Greek-Syriac) and corpus contact (LXX-P, T-P) on the one hand, and inner-Syriac developments on the other. Using case studies from Peshitta Genesis, the thesis responds to …
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Using Text Mining to Identify Crime Patterns from Arabic Crime News Report Corpus
… existing information, cluster crime documents based on certain attributes and utilize visualisation techniques to assist in crime data analysis. The proposed information extraction approach is novel, and it relies on computational linguistic techniques to identify the abovementioned …
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A study on plagiarism detection and plagiarism direction identification using natural language processing techniques
… plagiarism detection. This is a computational approach which assists humans in judging whether pieces of texts are plagiarised. However, most existing plagiarism detection approaches are limited to super cial, brute-force stringmatching techniques. If the text has undergone substantial semantic …