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In the minds of stochastic parrots: Benchmarking, evaluating and interpreting large language models
(2024-11-18)The arrival of large language models (LLMs) in recent years has changed the landscape of natural language processing (NLP). Their impressive performance on popular benchmarks, ability to solve a range of different tasks ... -
Kampen om Kommersen – kritik, motstånd och drömmar i den nyliberala staden
(2024-11-18)The aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which neoliberal hegemony is produced and the processes by which it is maintained, negotiated and challenged. I critically examine the decisions, reports and interventions ... -
A Study of Actual and Non-Actual Motion Expressions in Telugu: A path towards a post-Talmian Motion Event Typology
(2024-11-05)This compilation thesis investigates the expressions of actual and non-actual motion (henceforth AM and NAM, respectively) in Telugu (Dravidian). AM refers to a situation where a physical object moves from one place to ... -
Estimating Sweden´s population in the Early Modern Period – methods and numbers
(2024)Examining the population in pre-modern society is a great challenge from the historian's point of view. Relevant source material is often missing, and what is still there can be methodically difficult to handle. The ... -
When Sparv met Superlim. . . A Sparv Plugin for Natural Language Understanding Analysis of Swedish
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Språkkunskaper och kunskapsspråk. Ämneslitteracitet i ämnesprov, undervisning och elevtexter inom svenska som andraspråk och fysik
(2024-10-02)The overall aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of disciplinary literacy in two subjects, Swedish as a second language (SSL) and physics, among ninth-year students in compulsory school. This thesis focuses ... -
On ambiguous past participles in Dutch
(2011)This article takes up the longstanding debate on the categorisation of the past participle. This construction is known to exhibit the structural and semantic features of both adjectives and verbs. In this article, the ... -
Lexical expansion in the HAVE and BE perfect in Dutch A constructionist prototype account*
(2014)This article investigates lexical expansion in the HAVE and BE perfect in Dutch. It is known from previous research that early perfects show more lexical restrictions than their modern counterparts. The aim of this ... -
The grammaticalization of the have perfect in Dutch A corpus study of contextual extension and semantic generalization
(2013)The article investigates the grammaticalization of the have perfect in Dutch by means of a corpus study of historical legal texts dating from the middle of the thirteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century. ... -
Human impersonal pronouns in Swedish and Dutch. A contrastive study of man and men
(2012)This paper presents a contrastive study of the human impersonal pronouns man in Swedish and men in Dutch. Both impersonal pronouns are etymologically derived from man ‘human being’ and they more or less have the same ... -
Thegns Around the North Sea: Elite, Nobility, Aristocracy of the Late Viking Age
(2024-08-19)This cross-disciplinary doctoral thesis examines thegns (OE/ON þegn) in late pre-Norman England and Viking-Age Scandinavia, departing from the problem of interpreting thegns commemorated in 45 runic inscriptions from around ... -
Grammaticalization meets construction grammar Opportunities, challenges and potential incompatibilities
(2018)Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely ... -
Computational Models of Language and Vision: Studies of Neural Models as Learners of Multi-Modal Knowledge
(2024-05-16)This thesis develops and evaluates computational models that generate natural language descriptions of visual content. We build and examine models of language and vision to gain a deeper understanding of how they reflect ... -
Navigating Relationships in Exile: Norway, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Small State Diplomacy in Second World War London
(2024-05-13)This portfolio thesis maps the management of inter-state relationships by small power foreign policymakers in Second World War exile. German, Italian and Soviet aggression during the late 1930s and early 1940s forced ... -
Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change
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Projektionsfigur Deserteur? Aushandlungsprozesse nachkriegsdeutscher Diskurse anhand des Motivs der Fahnenflucht in der Literatur (1948-1961)
(2024-05-06)This dissertation analyses the literary figure of the deserter in a selection of post-war German literature. Previous studies predominantly argued that the literary motive of desertion represented a form of resistance ... -
Fundamental Dynamicity – A Metaphysics of Time and Process
(2024-05-02)This book continues a long tradition in philosophy going back to the pre-Socratics, who made a rather simple observation that still holds true today: All things flow. We experience this flow, flux, in abundance: the seasons ... -
Visions Beyond Empire: British Federalism and Post-Imperial United Kingdom, 1884-1945
(2024-04-08)This study seeks to trace federalists’ continuous effort to envision and plan for the end of the empire from 1884 to 1945. While British federalism changed a lot during this period, there was a constant concern with the ...