Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies ...
Wohlmuth, Kata (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Mereological models are often used to account for distributive reference, which arises when the denotation of a linguistic expression holds of certain parts of the plurality to which it is applied. It ...
Ginovart Cid, Clara (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
While (translation) technology and the language industry continue to evolve, varieties of professional profiles and nuances to the relevant skillsets emerge. The field of machine translation post-editing, ...
Ferraro, Gabriela (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
This thesis addresses the problem of the development of Natural Language Processing techniques for the extraction and generalization of compositional and functional relations from specialized written ...
Cao, Shuyuan (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
As one of the essential elements for Natural Language Processing (NLP), discourse has called much attention during recent years. Many studies explore the role of how discourse elements affect in different ...
Puig Waldmüller, Estela Sophie (Date of defense: 2008-06-18)
En el trabajo la semántica y pragmática de formas contraídas y no-contraídas en Alemán serán discutidas. Formas contraídas son preposiciones con sufijos flexionales, obligatorias en contextos en las que ...
Sichel-Bazin, Rafèu (Date of defense: 2015-06-17)
Occitan and French are two Gallo-Romance languages that have been in a diglossic situation in Southern France for centuries. Couched in an Autosegmental-Metrical framework, the present thesis analyzes ...
Slušná, Dominika (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
Language impairment forms a broader spectrum in humans than current diagnostic labels such as specific language impairment suggest. This thesis is about language capacities at the neglected bottom end ...
Sorodoc, Ionut-Teodor (Date of defense: 2022-04-11)
In this thesis, I tackle the ability of deep neural networks to represent entities, and I assess the extent to which this feature impacts tasks involving entities. I consider two standard architectures, ...
Trypanagnostopoulou, Sofia (Date of defense: 2019-06-14)
Phraseological units are an important part of every language and due to their distinctive characteristics, they require special attention in their lexicographic description. However, phraseology is often ...