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Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Corpus Linguistics
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 546-567, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper makes the case for using historical corpora to assess questions of sociolinguistic typology. A full account of any contact‐induced change will need to establish what the linguistic innovation in question was, who was in contact, where and when the contact took place and how the change happened, both at the individual level and at ...
George Walkden +5 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 513-545, November 2023., 2023 Abstract When linguists make inferences about language contact, control data is required for reliable analysis. Historical data or reconstructions are typically used for that purpose. However, historical data is globally mostly unavailable, and reconstructions are laborious if comparing outcomes of language contact in a typological way.
Kaius Sinnemäki, Noora Ahola
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BERTuit: Understanding Spanish language in Twitter with transformers
Expert Systems, Volume 40, Issue 9, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The appearance of complex attention‐based language models such as BERT, RoBERTa or GPT‐3 has allowed to address highly complex tasks in a plethora of scenarios. However, when applied to specific domains, these models encounter considerable difficulties. This is the case of Social Networks such as Twitter, an ever‐changing stream of information
Javier Huertas‐Tato +2 more
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Language patterns in Japanese patients with Alzheimer disease: A machine learning approach
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume 77, Issue 5, Page 273-281, May 2023., 2023 Aim The authors applied natural language processing and machine learning to explore the disease‐related language patterns that warrant objective measures for assessing language ability in Japanese patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), while most previous studies have used large publicly available data sets in Euro‐American languages.
Yuki Momota +8 more
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An auxiliary Part‐of‐Speech tagger for blog and microblog cyber‐slang
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 65-79, February 2023., 2023 Abstract The increasing impact of Web 2.0 involves a growing usage of slang, abbreviations, and emphasized words, which limit the performance of traditional natural language processing models. The state‐of‐the‐art Part‐of‐Speech (POS) taggers are often unable to assign a meaningful POS tag to all the words in a Web 2.0 text.
Silvia Golia, Paola Zola
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The Axial Part Phrase in Japanese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, I investigate the categorial status of spatial terms in locative/directional expressions in Japanese. I will show that a certain class of spatial terms have a distinct categorial status from both regular postpositions and nouns.
Kaori Takamine
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The Use of Locative Nouns Li, Shang, and Zhong as Mandarin Language Adposition
Lingua Cultura, 2017 The purpose of this study was to analyze locative nouns (li, shang, and zhong) that may function as postpositions and therefore Mandarin language considered to have circumposition. The collected data were sentences taken from Chinese short stories by Lu
Ayu Trihardini
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Disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese
Linguistik Online, 2021 In this paper, I focus on disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese. In the literature, disyllabic post-nominal locatives have traditionally been considered nouns. Recent proposals, however, have offered different analyses.
Pei-Jung Kuo
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Towards a typology of morphological case
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Adposition phrases in morphologically impoverished languages have a function similar to nouns with morphological cases in morphologically rich languages, leading some researchers to argue that at least some cases belong to the category P. The aim of this
Anna Asbury
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Glossa, 2020 This article discusses differential object marking and object shift in German Sign Language (DGS). Although there is already some literature discussing the existence of differential object marking in sign languages, this article provides the first in ...
Fabian Bross
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