• Evaluación automática de legibilidad en sentencias judiciales argentinas: lenguaje claro y acceso a la justicia

  Milio, Dalila Natalia (2024)

  ¿Son las sentencias judiciales claras para la ciudadanía? Con el objetivo de contribuir a las iniciativas del lenguaje claro, este estudio se centra en el desarrollo de una maqueta de evaluador automático de legibilidad ...
• Effects of producing pitch gestures on the production of Chinese tones

  Zeng, Zhao (2023-09-29)

  Previous studies have shown the beneficial role of observing pitch gestures, which refer to hand movements mimicking pitch heights and contours in speech, in improving the perception of L2 tones by non-tonal language ...
• Examining iconicity information in semantic and phonetic word embeddings

  Wright, Jamie (2023-09-29)

  This study explores the concept of iconicity, which refers to a relationship of similarity between sound and meaning in words. The Bouba-kiki effect, where participants consistently associate certain phonemes with round ...
• M3D Gesture Labeling: developing and evaluating a training program for gesture annotation - a mixed-methods study

  Tütüncübasi, Ulya (2023-09-29)

  Various gesture labeling systems aim to establish guidelines on how to systematically assess and annotate gestures. However, there is a lack of resources that provide guidance and training on the proper use of the labeling ...
• Detecting and mapping dialectal variation in a Dutch Twitter corpus: examining the use of Dutch Low Saxon online

  Pieterse, Tommy (2023-09-29)

  Recent decades have seen an increase in the prevalence of the use of computational methods in the study of language, including in sociolinguistics. These methods allow for the study of language variation through the ...
• Analysing narratives in Heritage English learning children with native or foreign speaker parents in Barcelona, Spain

  Murray, Jacqueline (2023-09-29)

  Heritage speakers are those whose home language differs from the language of their inhabited region. This can include native speakers who immigrate, or parents who chose to use their non-native language at home for various ...
• The effects of an oral narrative-based intervention on the development of the non-dominant language in bilingual Catalan-Spanish preschoolers

  Luong, Claire Lien (2023-09-29)

  Examining the narrative microstructure of non-dominant bilinguals is crucial as it can help us comprehend the processes of simultaneous language acquisition and how children develop their language skills, potentially ...
• Neology in English and Spanish. 2005-2015. Lexicological characteristics and lexicographic representation

  Lu, Yingfei (2023-09-29)

  Our comparative study focuses on examining the word formation processes of English and Spanish neologisms collected from Among The New Words in American Speech (English data) and El Banco de Neologismos from Centro Virtual ...
• The impact of familiarity on naming variation: a study on object naming in Mandarin Chinese

  He, Yunke (2023-09-29)

  Different names are used when people refer to the same entity (e.g., “bread” vs “bagel”). We built on the ManyNames v2 dataset, a rich resource of real-world images annotated with multiple English names, to create a ...
• Derivational morphology in proper names: scenario knowledge and the paradigmatic lexicon

  Gutiérrez Martínez, Rafael Antonio (2023-09-29)

  The ProSPar model is an in-progress theory of word formation and meaning that tries to explain how morphological relations and world knowledge shape novel word formation and novel word meaning. In this thesis, I analyze ...
• Examining coreference Resolution in schizophrenia with a language model: detection gap, model performance and clinical correlations

  Fröhlich, Karla (2023-09-29)

  The occurrence of referential anomalies in spontaneous speech in psychosis, and more specifically in patients with formal thought disorder, has been documented since the late 1970s, and recent linguistic studies have ...
• De Assurancetourix a Garovirus: morfopragmática y humor en los antropónimos de Astérix

  Buendía Martínez, Mélida (2023-09-29)

  Este estudio se sitúa en la intersección entre la morfopragmática, la neología expresiva humorística y los antropónimos literarios. Gracias al análisis morfológico de una muestra representativa de 150 antropónimos ...
• The impact of tokenization on gender bias in Machine Translation

  Mash, Audrey (2023-09-29)

  This study examines the impact of tokenization methods on gender bias in Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Unigram, BPE, Character, and Morfessor tokenization approaches are compared in terms of translation quality ...
• Critical analysis of textbooks of Serbo-Croatian for foreigners

  Tabula, Mirela (2022-10-10)

  The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the field of critical research of foreign language textbooks. The researchers in this field have thus far focused mainly on major global languages (with the exception of Catalan). ...
• Improving Chinese-Catalan machine translation with Wikipedia parallel corpus

  Liu, Xizuan (2022-09-21)

  Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the state-of-the-art solution for automatic translation. However, the performance of NMT models on low-resource language pairs is still limited because it relies on parallel corpora ...
• Building a Catalan-Chinese parallel corpus from Wikipedia for use in machine translation

  Zhou, Chenyue (2022-09-21)

  The lack of parallel corpora is one of the biggest challenges hindering progress in Machine Translation for low-resource languages. In this work, we crawl and filter parallel sentences in Catalan and Chinese from Wikipedia ...
• Development of vocal repertoires in non- and minimally verbal autism spectrum disorder

  Sheets, Kelly Lauren (2022-09-19)

  The autism spectrum comprises a substantial 30% of individuals said to be non- or minimally verbal. While these produce no phrase-speech by definition, they often do vocalize. However, their exact vocal repertoires remain ...
• Code-switching practices in palestinian arabic

  Makhoul, Ward (2022-09-19)

  Code-switching (CS) is known as an ubiquitous phenomenon in multilingual societies and countries. Vernacular Palestinian Arabic variety spoken in Israel is among these languages, informally used for day-to-day conversations ...
• La construcció del significat terminològic a partir de definicions evolutives: estudi de casos

  Masson, Ludovic Jacques François (2022-09-19)

  L'objectiu d'aquest treball és analitzar la construcció del significat de les persones en termes de conceptes vinculats a la medicina, i veure com la quantitat de coneixement rebut influeix en la seva percepció dels ...
• Analyzing how context size and symmetry influence word embedding information

  Gabanes Anuncibay, Inés (2022-09-14)

  Word embeddings represent word meaning in the form of a vector; however, the encoded information varies depending on the parameters the vector has been trained with. This paper analyzes how two parameters, context size ...

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