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Automatic Glossing In Under-Resourced Languages: Case Studies In Bribri And Cook Islands Māori, Carter D. Anderson

Linguistics Undergraduate Senior Theses

Interlinear glossing is a major task in Indigenous language documentation. In this paper, I explore how effectively two Large Language Models, ByT5 and Gemini 2.5 Flash, can produce interlinear glossed text. I also examine how prompting an LLM with different types of information (dictionary entries, other training samples, and translations) can augment model performance. I apply these models to two under-resourced Indigenous languages: Bribri, which is morphologically complex from Costa Rica, and Cook Islands Māori, which has a simpler morphology and is from the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean. ByT5 exhibits much better performance when glossing Cook Islands Māori …

Toward The Application Of Natural Language Processing In Electronic Health Record Analysis For Taxonomy Development, Latoya Mcdonald

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Electronic health records (EHRs) are pivotal resources for nurse practice because they increase the timeliness and reliability of patient information at the point of care and support access by multiple healthcare providers and the individual patients themselves. However, it is widely recognized that data extraction from EHRs is challenging due to the variability in the language used in clinical care notes and the lack of standardized terminology across healthcare systems. The broad objective of this dissertation is to develop taxonomy-based classification models for nursing care by applying feature engineering approaches to EHRs that include nursing care of ostomy patients following …

Chatgpt As Metamorphosis Designer For The Future Of Artificial Intelligence (Ai): A Conceptual Investigation, Amarjit Kumar Singh (Library Assistant), Dr. Pankaj Mathur (Deputy Librarian)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to explore ChatGPT’s potential as an innovative designer tool for the future development of artificial intelligence. Specifically, this conceptual investigation aims to analyze ChatGPT’s capabilities as a tool for designing and developing near about human intelligent systems for futuristic used and developed in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Also with the helps of this paper, researchers are analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of ChatGPT as a tool, and identify possible areas for improvement in its development and implementation. This investigation focused on the various features and functions of ChatGPT that …

Table Of The Sun, Christine Bettis

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

My creative thesis is a 48-page collection of poems titled Table of the Sun. Each poem is an intimate interrogation of varied ecological, romantic, and/or political disasters ranging from the Dakota Access Pipeline, cruel love, and Donald Trump. Some poems are reckonings, and others work to heal trauma, heartache, clinical illness, and supernatural afflictions like those experienced by the Tarantati of Puglia. Some are combative, it's true. Water is everywhere and it is multitudinous as an agent of destruction, cleansing, and transformation, and as a life-giver. The collection was influenced by readings, lectures, and courses I've experienced at UNLV, including …

Towards A Computational Model Of Frame Of Reference Alignment In Swedish Dialogue, Simon Dobnik, Christine Howes, Kim Demaret, John D. Kelleher

Conference papers

In this paper we examine how people negotiate, interpret and repair the frame of reference (FoR) in online text based dialogues discussing spatial scenes in Swedish. We describe work-in-progress in which participants are given different perspectives of the same scene and asked to locate several objects that are only shown on one of their pictures. This task requires participants to coordinate on FoR in order to identify the missing objects. This study has implications for situated dialogue systems.

Emotional Facial Expressions In Synthesised Sign Language Avatars: A Manual Evaluation., Robert G Smith, Brian Nolan

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This research explores and evaluates the contribution that facial expressions might have regarding improved comprehension and acceptability in sign language avatars. Focusing specifically on Irish sign language (ISL), the Deaf (the uppercase ‘‘D’’ in the word ‘‘Deaf’’ indicates Deaf as a culture as opposed to ‘‘deaf’’ as a medical condition) community’s responsiveness to sign language avatars is examined. The hypothesis of this is as follows: augmenting an existing avatar with the seven widely accepted universal emotions identified by Ekman (Basic emotions: handbook of cognition and emotion. Wiley, London, 2005) to achieve underlying facial expressions will make that avatar more human-like …

The Role Of Emotion And Facial Expression In Synthesised Sign Language Avatars, Robert G Smith

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This thesis explores the role that underlying emotional facial expressions might have in regards to understandability in sign language avatars. Focusing specifically on Irish Sign Language (ISL), we examine the Deaf community’s requirement for a visual-gestural language as well as some linguistic attributes of ISL which we consider fundamental to this research. Unlike spoken language, visual-gestural languages such as ISL have no standard written representation. Given this, we compare current methods of written representation for signed languages as we consider: which, if any, is the most suitable transcription method for the medical receptionist dialogue corpus. A growing body of work …

A Web-Based Baby Names Selection System Report (Babysport), Jacob Erin Andreana

Student Works (2000-2009)

Getting the right thesis topic these days can be really difficult. Everyone wants to develop a system that is the most latest, popular, and most important of all different from the other seniors, but at the same time simple and not too complex. In line with this, I wanted to do something different from the others. Names have deeper meaning than meets the eyes. English names, for an example originate from Greek, Hebrew French and etc. Indian names on the other hand come from different ethnic group such as Jain, Hindu, Sikh, Tamil and so on. We may not realize …

Sistem Belajar Dan Menulis Jawi, Md. Salim Salhafiza

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Belajar Mengeja dan Menulis Jawi ini adalah sebuah sistem multimedia pembelajaran Jawi bagi kanak-kanak di dalam lingkungan umur 7 tahun hingga 9 tahun. Tujuan utama ia dibangunkan adalah untuk menyediakan alternatif kepada kanak-kanak untuk mempelajari jawi dalam persekitaran yang menggembirakan. Ini diharapkan dapat menarik minat kanak-kanak mempelajari Jawi serta seterusnya mengurangkan bilangan kanak-kanak yang ‘buta Jawi’. Sistem ini akana memudahkan kanak-kanak mempelajari cara-cara mengeja dan menulis Jawi menggunakan pendekatan kaedah grafik dan audio serta animasi menarik. Sistem ini akan dibangunkan menggunakan model GUIDE dengan pendekatan Interaksi Komputer Manusia (Human Computer Interaction). Perisian utama yang digunakan membangunkan sistem adalah Macromedia …

Sistem Pengenalan Huruf-Huruf Jawi Menggunakan Konsep Paparan 7 Segmen, Hanapi Zuriyana

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem yang akan saya bangunkan ialah sistem mengenal huruf-huruf jawi. Proses pengenalan adalah berdasarkan konsep paparan 7 segmen. Konsep paparan 7 segmen adalah seperti yang digunakan di dalam kalkulator-kalkulator di mana terdapat 7 garis putus-putus yang disusun secara menegak dan melintang untuk mengeluarkan output-output nombor. Tetapi untuk sistem ini, konsep paparan 7 segmen tersebut digunakan untuk mengeluarkan output-output huruf-huruf jawi sebanyak yang mungkin. Perisian yang akan digunakan untuk membangunkan sistem ini ialah Visual Basic 6.0 dan juga Microsoft Access 2000. Tujuan sistem ini dibangunkan ialah untuk mengenal huruf-huruf jawi mengunakan segmen-segmen dan teknik-teknik yang mudah. Sistem yang akan terhasil nanti …