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Context-Aware Text Normalisation for Historical Dialects

International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020
Context-aware historical text normalisation is a severely under-researched area. To fill the gap we propose a context-aware normalisation approach that relies on the state-of-the-art methods in neural machine translation and transfer learning. We propose
Maria Sukhareva
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Strategies for establishing discourse coherence. The case of Slovene dialectal discourse

Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, 2022
Abstract A discourse is considered coherent only if all its parts are semantically related to each other and if it makes sense. However, coherence cannot be attributed to a discourse in advance because it depends on how the participants understand what they hear/ read. So we can say that it is not the discourse that establishes coherence,
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The role of dialect in mother tongue retention of Slovene Canadians: a case study

Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, 2017
Abstract This article addresses the issue of mother tongue retention in the Slovene Canadian community of Vancouver. A brief social and historical profile of the community is followed by a description of the general linguistic situation, based on the data collected through questionnaires and participant observation.
Nada Šabec, Mihaela Koletnik
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"If Only Truber Had Been a Croat!" Slovene Variations on the Theme of a Common Slavic Literary Language from the Reformation to the Neo-Illyrian Period

Slovene Linguistic Studies
Whenever leading Slovene intellectuals were in the position todecide about a large-scale solution to the literary language question,there was to be a fierce debate for several years, with the minimalist view eventually prevailing.
Elisabeth Seitz
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Slovene as a “minoritised language” in Austria, Italy, Hungary and Croatia: genealogical linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects

Zeszyty Łużyckie
The article offers an overview of Slovene, present in its historical (also autochthonous or traditional) linguistic area alongside the national border in the neighbouring countries of present-day Slovenia (an independent state since 25 June 1991), i.e ...
Matej Šekli
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Istrian-Venetian Dialect among the Members of the Italian National Minority in Slovene Istria

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja, 2021
Abstract During the dialectological research carried out in recent years in some Istrian-Venetian localities (towns), we have learned from conversations with dialect speakers that the Istrian-Venetian dialect is most probably the language of communication of most members of the Italian national community in the coastal part of Slovene ...
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Participial shi-forms in Two Pskov and One Smolensk Dialects: A Comparison of Subsystems

Slovene
The paper comperes the functioning of the shi-forms in two Pskov dialects and one Smolensk dialect. Participial forms have different predicative functions in the Pskov dialects: they are not only used as part of the so-called perfect, but also to ...
Maria Ermolova, George Moroz
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Accelerated Grammatical Change in Carinthian Slovene: Dialect Mixture or “Linguistic Decay”?

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1988
a number of ways. Extralinguistically, there are the three usual 'planes' of variation: (1) spatial ('dialectal') variation one of the first things the visiting linguist is told is that "puwsoad u Sealax marwaj darhao" ("people talk differently everywhere in Sele"); (2) chronological variation the different generations speak in obviously different ways;
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Incorporating Dialect Understanding Into LLM Using RAG and Prompt Engineering Techniques for Causal Commonsense Reasoning

Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
The choice of plausible alternatives (COPA) task requires selecting the most plausible outcome from two choices based on understanding the causal relationships presented in a given text.This paper outlines several approaches and model adaptation ...
Benedikt Perak, Slobodan Beliga, A. Meštrović   +2 more
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Nekaj teoretskih izhodišč pri proučevanju jezikovne variantnosti

Jezik in Slovstvo
The article addresses selected theoretical issues in the study of language variation and change, aiming to contribute to the reflection on researching and describing the variation of spoken Slovene. In the first part, it highlights certain terminological
Maja Bitenc
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