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Named Entity Resolution for Historical Texts
The field of digital humanities has spurred an increase in applications of computational lin- guistics to historical documents, but the field remains underdeveloped. Standard natural language processing (NLP) techniques ... -
New Methods for Detecting Deceptive Product Reviews
With the explosion of online shopping sites, there has been a proliferation of businesses offering to post positive product reviews in exchange for payment. The presence of these deceptive reviews transforms a product's ... -
Non-Nominative Subjects in Russian and Lithuanian: Case, Argument Structure, and Anaphor Binding
In this dissertation, I aim to provide a comprehensive view of subjects in Russian and Lithuanian that have a morphological case other than nominative. Non-nominative subjects (NNSs) provide a window into the notion of ... -
"Obama never said that": Evaluating fact-checks for topical consistency and quality
This thesis examines topical consistency between claims and fact-checks in the Birdwatch dataset published by Twitter. The dataset has tweets (the claims), notes (context-adding annotations written by Birdwatch users), and ... -
Old Stereotypes "Live Free or Die": Addressing the Evaluation Problem of non-rhoticity in New Hampshire
Recent research examining New Hampshire English has demonstrated that the traditional Eastern New England features are dissipating among New Hampshirites (Nagy, 2001; Labov, Ash, & Boberg, 2005; Nagy & Irwin, 2010; Stanford, ... -
On the diverse language experiences of humans and machines
Human experience is characterized by remarkable linguistic and sociocultural diversity. At the same time, much of this diversity is neglected in the language-related fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and natural ... -
On the Statistical Significance Testing for Natural Language Processing
This thesis explores and compares statistical significance tests frequently used in comparing Natural Language Processing (NLP) system performance in several aspects. We begin by establishing the fundamentals of the NLP ... -
An optimality theoretic analysis of Nicaraguan Spanish diminutivization: results of a field survey
(1999)The goals of the present investigation of diminutive formation in Nicaraguan Spanish were twofold: to collect a solid corpus of data defining a clear pattern of diminutive formation in terms of preference and variability, ... -
Parallel Sentence Detection in Comparable Corpora with Bilingual Word Embeddings for Low-resource Languages
In an emergency, machine translation systems can be useful in facilitating international cooperation during rescue efforts. Unfortunately, training resources (bitexts) for many language pairs are scarce and tend to comprise ... -
Phonetics and phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) intonation
(1999)This dissertation gives the first detailed description of the phonetics and phonology of the intonation system of Unangan (Eastern Aleut), an indigenous Alaskan language. Twelve fluent speakers were recorded giving ... -
Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon
(2013-04-17)In this dissertation, I investigate the linguistic and technological challenges involved in creating a cross-linguistic data set to undertake phonological typology. I then address the question of whether more sophisticated, ... -
The Phonetics of Stance-taking
Stance -- attitudes and opinions about the topic of discussion -- has been investigated textually in conversation- and discourse analysis and in computational models, but little work has focused on its acoustic-phonetic ... -
The Phonetics of Tone in Two Dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan)
(2013-07-25)This dissertation is an investigation of acoustic properties of lexical tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan). The noteworthy mirror-image tone systems of the H-marked Doig and L-marked Halfway dialects provide a ... -
Polyglot Text Classification with Neural Document Models
Sometimes, annotating data for text classification is expensive, so one must rely on techniques like parameter sharing and semi-supervised learning to improve classification performance in low-resource environments. In ... -
Productivity, influence, and evolution: The complex language shift of Modern Ladino
This dissertation uses data from interviews with Seattle Ladino speakers, an online forum in Ladino, and documents from the University of Washington Sephardic Studies Collection to investigate the language shift that Modern ... -
Pronouns Raising and Emerging
This dissertation revisits the question of the syntactic and semantic status of pronouns, incorporating new syntactic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic data to support an analysis of n-to-D head movement in the nominal domain. ... -
Prosody, intelligibility and familiarity in speech perception
(2013-07-25)This thesis concerns the relationship between speech intelligibility and speech prosody, and the role that speech prosody plays in the perceptual advantage that occurs when listening to a familiar talker. A parallel corpus ... -
Proto-Mazatec phonology
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Referential morphology in signed languages
(2004)This thesis examines the use of space for reference in signed languages. In American Sign Language, as well as in all other signed languages that have been studied, locations in the signing space are used to represent ... -
The relative degree of difficulty of L2 Spanish /d, t/, trill, and tap by L1 English speakers: auditory and acoustic methods of defining pronunciation accuracy
(2005)This study has investigated the L2 acquisition of Spanish word-medial /d, t, r, (fish hook)/, word-initial /r/, and onset cluster /(fish hook)/. Two similar experiments were designed to address the relative degree of ...