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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Proper nouns"”.
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Strategy and procedures for translating proper nouns and neologisms in Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel Small Gods into Afrikaans
… available to a translator when translating the proper nouns and neologisms in a fantasy novel. The translator should not move towards and stand next to the reader to create a target text that is unrecognisable compared to the source text. At the same time, the translator cannot remain next to …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… of the most frequent 2,000 word families, proper nouns, and marginal words provided 96.05% coverage, and knowledge of the most frequent 5,000 word families, proper nouns, and marginal words provided 98% coverage of songs. Both American and British songs reached 95% coverage at the 2,000 …
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Improving Topic Tracking with Domain Chaining
… is a linear algorithm. Second, to handle proper nouns, we gather all of the ones that occur in a news story together in a chain reserved for proper nouns. In this thesis we also discuss the linguistic limitations of lexical chainers to represent textual meaning.
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Feature recognition in OCR text
… value than the terms alone (i.e. acronyms, proper nouns, phrases). An algorithm to recognize acronyms and their definitions will be presented. An evaluation of the algorithm will also be presented.
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A General Semantic Model of Negation in Natural Language: Representation and Inference
… complex determiners, adjectives, adverbs, common nouns, proper nouns, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, prepositions, and prepositional phrases can be represented and reasoned with. Areas of future research involve extending the model to handle modal operators, sentential adverbs, pragmatics, …
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Entity recognition for multi-modal socio-technical systems
… of named entities, typically in the form of proper nouns. The presented solution also detects entities not referred to by a name, such as general references to places (e.g. forest) or natural resources (e.g. timber). We use supervised machine learning for this project. To overcome data …
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The peculiarities of the lithuanian rendition of irrealia from “fantastic beasts and where to find them” by j. k. rowling /
… identified, namely situational, ethnographic and proper nouns, the latter being subdivided into proper names, fauna, social and political concepts, as well as other cases of irrealia. The results of the study indicate that the most commonly used strategy for the rendition of irrealia is …
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Development of machine learning based speaker recognition system
… 13 words including numeric digits (0-9) and proper nouns, and used triplet combinations of these words as passwords. We chose Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients to represent the voice signals for forming frame-based feature vectors. With these we trained Support Vector Machine and Artificial …
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
… to familiarity with English-Spanish cognates and proper nouns. FERN also reliably monitors reading speeds and word counts, and provides motivating progress reports, which enable teachers to set concrete reading goals that dramatically increase the quantity that students read, as demonstrated in …
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Effectiveness of a Partial Read-Aloud Test Accommodation to Assess Reading Comprehension in Students with a Reading Disability
… question items, multiple choice answers and proper nouns, while students are responsible for reading the passages independently. A field research study showed that struggling third grade readers given the partial read aloud condition demonstrated greater gains in reading comprehension test …
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Classification and visualisation of text documents using networks
… webpage. The webpage was reduced to its proper nouns which contained much of the important information in the text. Training accuracy is important in text classification which is a task that can often be performed on vast amounts of documents. Much of the research in text classification …