Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2022-12-31

The purpose of this project is to enhance accessibility to and knowledge of a relatively little-used historical source — petitions — and to use this source to answer questions about people’s ways of supporting ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

Thousands of ciphers, enciphered historical manuscripts, are buried in libraries and archives. Our project will develop computer-aided tools for automatic and semi-automatic decoding of historical source ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2024-11-30

Thousands of encrypted manuscripts are found in archives all over Europe, documents that are not yet available for historical research. Examples of such materials are diplomatic and military correspondence ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

In the recent years, significant progress has been made in natural language processing and machine translation in particular. The launch of Google Translate is one example that demonstrates the growing ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The project aims to provide a fuller documentation of Kunashi, a "definitely endangered" (UNESCO) unwritten and undescribed Tibeto-Burman language spoken in only one village - Malana - in the Kullu district ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The project aims to investigate colloquialization in the history of Swedish (c. 1830—c. 1930) by exploring fictional prose. The term colloquialization refers to the incorporation of colloquial linguistic ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The purpose of this project is to make a holistic analysis of contemporary bestsellers by combining different methods (distant and close, inductive and deductive, probabilistic and historic-empiric), materials ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Sino-Tibetan (ST) is one of the largest language families on earth, second only to Indo-European (IE) in number of speakers. However, when it comes to our basic facts about ST – how many languages there ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-06-18 till 2018-06-20

Tusentals krypterade manuskript, s.k. chiffer finns i bibliotek och arkiv i Sverige och över hela Europa, dokument som ännu inte är tillgängliga för historisk forskning. Exempel på sådana material är diplomatisk ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Pronouns are challenging for machine translation (MT) because their use variesbetween languages and because anaphoric pronouns are subject to long-distanceconstraints outside the standard unit of MT. The ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-07-01 till 2023-06-30

Language technology is increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives. We rely on search engines, spell checkers, machine translation, etc. Access to such language technology is however very unequal across ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Natural language processing plays an increasingly important role in our lives. Whenever we make use of search engines, voice interfaces, or online translation services, we rely on the capacity of computers ...