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Code Switching Detection in Speech
Povolný, Filip ; Glembek, Ondřej (referee) ; Matějka, Pavel (advisor)
This master's thesis deals with code-switching detection in speech. The state-of-the-art methods of language diarization are described in the first part of the thesis. The proposed method for implementation is based on acoustic approach to language identification using combination of GMM, i-vector and LDA. New Mandarin-English code-switching database was created for these experiments. Using this system, accuracy of 89,3 % is achieved on this database.
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Standard Czech Morphology in TV Show
Mašek, Ondřej ; Sojka, Pavel (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis was to find out to what extent there is a violation of the standard of writing in two specific interview programs, namely the XTalk and Interview ČT24. Both shows have similar footage (around 22-28 minutes), essentially the same dialogical composition (the host asks questions and the guest answers), but the personality of the host is different. The hosts of both shows are professionals in their field, so non-standard phenomena occur only sporadically (often in more emotionally loaded situations), but their moderation style, which creates a different atmosphere in the studio in both shows, may leads to more frequent violations of the standard norm of the Czech language in XTalk. Of course, the selection of guests also played a role, in which we noticed the frequency of occurrence of non-standard variants, the influence of the communication role, selected sociolinguistic factors and the host. The obtained data was compared with two years older research of dialogical texts of radio journalism by two corpus sources of commonly spoken Czech. The research sample consisted of a total of thirty interviews from 2018-2021. The analysis of the obtained data showed that the speakers could be divided into three groups in terms of the occurrence of non-standard variants: speakers...
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Syntaktická analýza textů se střídáním kódů
Ravishankar, Vinit ; Zeman, Daniel (advisor) ; Mareček, David (referee)
(English) Vinit Ravishankar July 2018 The aim of this thesis is twofold; first, we attempt to dependency parse existing code-switched corpora, solely by training on monolingual dependency treebanks. In an attempt to do so, we design a dependency parser and ex- periment with a variety of methods to improve upon the baseline established by raw training on monolingual treebanks: these methods range from treebank modification to network modification. On this task, we obtain state-of-the- art results for most evaluation criteria on the task for our evaluation language pairs: Hindi/English and Komi/Russian. We beat our own baselines by a sig- nificant margin, whilst simultaneously beating most scores on similar tasks in the literature. The second part of the thesis involves introducing the relatively understudied task of predicting code-switching points in a monolingual utter- ance; we provide several architectures that attempt to do so, and provide one of them as our baseline, in the hopes that it should continue as a state-of-the-art in future tasks. 1
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Code switching and code mixing in DVTV - online channel interviews
Morávková, Alena ; Sojka, Pavel (advisor) ; Janovec, Ladislav (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to find out to what extent DVTV Internet TV speakers adhere to Literary Czech in each interview they perform and under which circumstances they do not. We also wanted to contribute to the answers to the question, whether it is appropriate to think about the transition from the current concept of Literary Czech to Standard Czech. During the interview analysis, we monitored the rate of occurrence of the non-standard elements, the influence of the speaker's role in the interview, and selected sociolinguistic factors which have influence on the choice of language code. We compared the results with the research of other journalistic interviews and with the corpus data from the Common Czech. The examined material consisted of 30 interviews from January to February 2016. We found out that some of the interviewed people tended to use Literary Czech, some were speaking non-standard Czech and there were also people whose speech was in terms of the occurrence of Literary and non-standard elements rather mixed. Nevertheless, in general, the character of the texts was rather literary. Based on a comparison of the results with other research, we came to the conclusion that the transition from Literary Czech to Standard Czech would be premature, as the speakers are able to comply with...
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Spanish-English Bilingualism in the Context of California
Eisnerová, Tereza ; Mištinová, Anna (advisor) ; Binková, Simona (referee)
This Diploma thesis deals with the Spanish-English Bilingualism in the Context of California. It focuses on the theory of bilingualism in terms of linguistics, psycholinguistics and phenomena that occur in contact languages. Bilingualism is viewed from the complex perspective, so it is set in the context of reality in California. The thesis deals with social identity of Hispanic speakers and focuses on the causes of code - switching. It also presents demographic situation, language policy and its history, both in the context of California and the background of the legal framework and policies of the United States. The aim of this work is to create an overview of linguistic phenomena that occur in the situation of languages in contact and their characteristics, secondly to find arguments to demonstrate the advantages of bilingualism and general support and to determine the primary reasons why code - switching occurs.
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Multilingualism in children of preschool and primary school age
Šaumanová, Kristina ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nováková, Sylva (referee)
This thesis focuses on bilingualism and multilingualism in children of preschool and primary school age and is intended as a source of information on multilingual education of young children. This thesis comprises of theoretical research into the technical aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism, based on academic literature, the approach to multilingual education and the linguistic aspects connected to multilingual education. The practical part contains the reflections of families who have personal experience with multilingual education.
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Revitalization of the Regional Language in Provence by the Medium of Calandreta Schools
Vacula, Richard ; Zavadil, Bohumil (advisor) ; Valeš, Miroslav (referee) ; Prokop, Josef (referee)
Revitalization of the Regional Language in Provence by the Medium of Calandreta Schools Richard Vacula (Abstract) This thesis focuses on the role of bilingual Calandreta schools in the process of maintenance and revitalisation of the regional language in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, France. It is based on empirical research undertaken in form of questionnaires and directed interviews in the place of two existing Provençal Calandretas, Gap and Orange. A sample of the local population and respondents from the area of the two schools has been included in the research. We have studied linguistic behaviour, attitudes towards regional education, and the picture of the schools and the language in question. The results suggest that the public is inclined towards the essentials of the language being taught, however, less so towards bilingual education. The results also show that the potential of the schools observed lies rather in their pedagogical methods. The strong pressure of French is noticeable even on the grounds of the schools. The use of Occitan in everyday communication situations is then somewhat rare. The regional language is noticeably associated with the school environment and is connected with specific contexts. Hence, it is necessary to rate the influence of the Calandreta schools on the real...
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Code Switching Detection in Speech
Povolný, Filip ; Glembek, Ondřej (referee) ; Matějka, Pavel (advisor)
This master's thesis deals with code-switching detection in speech. The state-of-the-art methods of language diarization are described in the first part of the thesis. The proposed method for implementation is based on acoustic approach to language identification using combination of GMM, i-vector and LDA. New Mandarin-English code-switching database was created for these experiments. Using this system, accuracy of 89,3 % is achieved on this database.
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