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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"parts of speech"”.
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Disaster tweet classification using parts-of-speech tags: a domain adaptation approach
Twitter is one of the most active social media sites today. Almost everyone is using it, as it is a medium by which people stay in touch and inform others about events in their lives. Among many other types of events, people tweet about disaster events. Both man made and natural disasters, …
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Illustrating the prototype structures of parts of speech: A multidimensional scaling analysis
Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001) proposes that parts of speech can be explained as prototypes that emerge from the use of broad semantic classes of words--objects, properties, and actions--in basic propositional act functions of discourse--reference, modification, and predication. This …
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Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
… the emergence and operationalization of control of parts of speech in the interlanguage development of American non-heritage adult learners of Russian. The data was collected from 47 recorded Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) at the Intermediate Mid, Intermediate High, Advanced Low, …
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Parsing of Natural Language Requirements
<p>The purpose of this thesis was to automate verification of the software requirements for an implantable cardioverter defibrillator with minimal manual rework. The requirements were written in plain English with only loose stylistic constraints. While full automation proved infeasible, many …
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Old French borrowings in "The Owl and the Nightingale"
… Nightingale" ascertains the quantity and nature of Old French words present in this thirteenth-century Middle English poem. Patterns of borrowing, whether source-based or subject-based, are identified and problematic words, such as cognates, are investigated for probable language of origin. These …
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Treebank-based automatic acquisition of wide coverage, deep linguistic resources for Japanese
… a methodology for the automatic acquisition of wide-coverage treebank-based deep linguistic resources fr Japanese, as part of the GramLab project which focuses on the automatic treebank-based induction of multilingual resources in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). After …
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Part of speech N-grams for information retrieval
The increasing availability of information on the World Wide Web (Web), and the need to access relevant specs of this information provide an important impetus for the development of automatic intelligent Information Retrieval (IR) technology. IR systems convert human authored language into …
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Syllables and the M Language : improving unknown word guessing
Despite the huge amount of computer data that exists today, the task of sharing information between organizations is still tackled largely on a case-by-case basis. The M Language is a data language that improves data sharing and interoperability by building a platform on top of XML and a semantic …
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Syntactically annotated Ngrams for Google Books
In this thesis, we present a new edition of the Google Books Ngram Corpus, describing how often words and phrases were used over a period of five centuries, in eight languages; it aggregates data from 6% of all books ever published. This new edition introduces syntactic annotations: words are …
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Automatic Lexicon Generation for Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Only Unannotated Text
With the growing number of textual resources available, the ability to understand them becomes critical. An essential first step in understanding these sources is the ability to identify the parts-of-speech in each sentence. The goal of this research is to propose, improve, and implement an …
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Visualizing speech production with a hidden Markov model tracker to aid speech therapy and communication
… disorders occur across all age groups of people and often show first signs of appearing in children. These can range from problems in comprehension of speech to expression of speech to the point that it interferes with an individuals achievement and/or quality of life. Communication …
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A Dialect Analysis of Hymns and Poems to the Virgin and Christ and Other Religious Poems from Ms. Lambeth 853
<p>This thesis is a dialect analysis of a select group of hymns and poems to the Virgin and Christ and other religious poems from MS Lambeth 853. It thoroughly examines the phonology of the vowels in words of Old English origin found in the MS and records all these words except for most of the …
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The relevance of teachers' non-English oral proficiency to their metalinguistic and register awareness of English
… whether and the extent to which oral proficiency with limited or no literacy skills in a non-English language promoted native English-speaking (NES) and nonnative English-speaking (NNES) English language teachers' metalinguistic and register awareness of English. Teachers were classified …
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A descriptive grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua
This dissertation is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua (HT), which is a member of the Totonacan language family. HT is spoken by fewer than 1500 people in and around the town of Huehuetla, Hidalgo, in the Eastern Sierra Madre mountains of the Central Gulf Coast region …
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Lexical and Sublexical Characteristics of Words Produced Disfluently by Adults Who Stutter
<p>The examination of stuttered words dates back over 70 years. While recent studies have examined the speech of children who stutter (CWS) (Anderson & Byrd, 2008) or small parts of speech of adults who stutter (AWS) (Au-Yeung, Howell, & Pilgrim, 1998, little is known about the words produced …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
… endangered language spoken in the south-west of New Guinea. It is a member of the Yelmek-Maklew family, a maximal clade language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this language family. …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
… endangered language spoken in the south-west of New Guinea. It is a member of the Yelmek-Maklew family, a maximal clade language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this language family. …
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Examining the Appropriateness of the PPUT-111 as a Measure of Vocabulary Development in Linguistically Diverse Kindergarten Children
In order to evaluate the appropriateness of a standardized vocabulary measure for linguistically diverse kindergarten children this study examined response patterns of young Canadian children using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test –Third Edition (PPVT-III, Dunn & Dunn, 1997). Questions have been …
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An Empirical Investigation of Russian Interlanguage at the Superior Level and the Perspective of the Educated Native Speaker
<p>The main objective of the present study was to examine and describe the nature of Superior–level interlanguage from the point of view of educated native speakers. Five members of the Moscow State University faculty listened to the oral proficiency interviews of six Superior–level speakers and …
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Increasing Metalinguistics Awareness as a Necessary Precursor for Preservice Teachers
<p>Metalinguistic awareness (MA) in the context of the present study is the ability to deconstruct and analyze a language's intricate systems, and by doing so, better understand how these systems work. More specifically for the present study, the investigation focused on preservice teachers' MA in …
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