Automatic Detection of Intra-Word Code-Switching

TY - CHAP

T1 - Automatic Detection of Intra-Word Code-Switching

AU - Nguyen, D.

AU - Cornips, L.M.E.A.

PY - 2016/8/1

Y1 - 2016/8/1

N2 - Many people are multilingual and they may draw from multiple language varietieswhen writing their messages. This paper is a first step towards analyzing and detecting code-switching within words. We first segment words into smaller units. Then, words are identified that are composed of sequences of subunits associated with different languages. We demonstrate our method on Twitter data in which both Dutch and dialect varieties labeled as Limburgish, a minority language, are used.

AB - Many people are multilingual and they may draw from multiple language varietieswhen writing their messages. This paper is a first step towards analyzing and detecting code-switching within words. We first segment words into smaller units. Then, words are identified that are composed of sequences of subunits associated with different languages. We demonstrate our method on Twitter data in which both Dutch and dialect varieties labeled as Limburgish, a minority language, are used.

M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings

SN - 978-1-945626-08-1

SP - 82

EP - 28

BT - Proceedings of the 14th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

CY - Stroudsburg

ER -