Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Previous evidence suggests that increased pause production in spontaneous speech can indicate cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and that this may depend on the linguistic context of the pause, such as syntactic ...
When referring to the objects they see, speakers choose a word from the lexical system to name them. This process involves using a word with a general meaning to refer to a specific object, which possesses unique features ...
Embedding models are powerful machine-learning-based representations of human language used in a myriad of Natural Language Processing tasks. Due to their ability to learn underlying word association patterns present in ...
La disponibilidad de herramientas conceptuales para la descripción y la extracción en un determinado dominio de conocimiento es fundamental para garantizar el acceso a la información. En contextos de conflictos armados ...
This dissertation is an exploration of discourses representing the political life, death, and continued presence of Marielle Franco following her assassination on 14 March 2018. Marielle Franco was a councilwoman in the ...
Our language capacity emerges robustly and universally in development, it lies at the heart of our human experience from the beginning of a human life, and remains relatively stable across the lifespan. Yet its vulnerability ...
Language models (LMs) have evolved to become remarkably capable yet similarly complex and intransparant systems. Our ability to understand how they achieve their outstanding traits – i.e. making them interpretable – can ...
While it is known that speakers tend to use more reduced forms (e.g., by shortening or deleting segments) for words or phrases that are semantically predictable from context, it is contentious whether the same phenomena ...
This thesis investigates the two verbal gerunds in English: POSS-ing (Clay’s winning the game) and ACC-ing (Clay winning the game). It is widely recognized that they do not denote events, but there are many different ...
En esta tesis exploramos una práctica creativa emergente en las selvas digitales: la producción videográfica en idioma extranjero o adicional (L2), con el objetivo de indagar cómo los aprendices de L2 construyen y negocian ...
In this doctoral thesis, we address the study of the linguistic evolution of Western medicine disease terms in the Chinese language from 1915 to 2020. This is a parameter that has not yet been investigated in the specialized ...
This dissertation describes youth language as it is represented in contemporary novels published in English and its subsequent translation into Catalan. Youth language is especially appealing for the study of written fiction ...
Recent advances in language modeling led to remarkable performance in many NLP applications. However, the static and passive learning imposed by the nexttoken- prediction objective makes models suboptimal when deployed in ...
La presente tesis doctoral estudia el proceso de la integración del teatro de Antón Chéjov en Cataluña en el siglo XXI, enfocándose en las traducciones de la obra «Дядя Ваня» [L’oncle Vània. Tío Vania] al catalán y al ...
Aquesta tesi estudia la morfologia de la llengua de signes catalana (LSC) des d’un punt de vista lexicalista i morfofonològic a través del procés de la derivació. Les anàlisis es basen en un model integrat a partir de ...
El marcatge diferencial d’objecte (MDO) és un fenomen complex, regulat per factors nominals, verbals i pragmàtics. L’animacitat i l’estabilitat referencial dels objectes (Aissen, 2003, Farkas i von Heusinger, 2003) són dos ...
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan for comprehensibility and cultural adaptation in terms of language. This study questions whether there ...
Meaning in any naturalistic utterance has a dual aspect: one is lexical-semantic memory, which enters into utterances in the form of words that we remember and retrieve; the other is the specific kind of meaning carried ...
In the realm of second language acquisition of pronunciation, perception-based phonetic training has been shown to be effective in improving L2 perception and production. By incorporating the visual modality of the speaker’s ...
Linguistic characteristics of spontaneous connected speech are showing increasing potential for detecting and tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, and could be particularly suitable to study at-risk populations ...
