Rafiya Begum


2016

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Functions of Code-Switching in Tweets: An Annotation Framework and Some Initial Experiments
Rafiya Begum | Kalika Bali | Monojit Choudhury | Koustav Rudra | Niloy Ganguly
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

Code-Switching (CS) between two languages is extremely common in communities with societal multilingualism where speakers switch between two or more languages when interacting with each other. CS has been extensively studied in spoken language by linguists for several decades but with the popularity of social-media and less formal Computer Mediated Communication, we now see a big rise in the use of CS in the text form. This poses interesting challenges and a need for computational processing of such code-switched data. As with any Computational Linguistic analysis and Natural Language Processing tools and applications, we need annotated data for understanding, processing, and generation of code-switched language. In this study, we focus on CS between English and Hindi Tweets extracted from the Twitter stream of Hindi-English bilinguals. We present an annotation scheme for annotating the pragmatic functions of CS in Hindi-English (Hi-En) code-switched tweets based on a linguistic analysis and some initial experiments.

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Understanding Language Preference for Expression of Opinion and Sentiment: What do Hindi-English Speakers do on Twitter?
Koustav Rudra | Shruti Rijhwani | Rafiya Begum | Kalika Bali | Monojit Choudhury | Niloy Ganguly
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2010

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A Preliminary Work on Hindi Causatives
Rafiya Begum | Dipti Misra Sharma
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Asian Language Resouces

2008

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Dependency Annotation Scheme for Indian Languages
Rafiya Begum | Samar Husain | Arun Dhwaj | Dipti Misra Sharma | Lakshmi Bai | Rajeev Sangal
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Volume-II

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Developing Verb Frames for Hindi
Rafiya Begum | Samar Husain | Lakshmi Bai | Dipti Misra Sharma
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

This paper introduces an ongoing work on developing verb frames for Hindi. Verb frames capture syntactic commonalities of semantically related verbs. The main objective of this work is to create a linguistic resource which will prove to be indispensable for various NLP applications. We also hope this resource to help us better understand Hindi verbs. We motivate the basic verb argument structure using relations as introduced by Panini. We show the methodology used in preparing these frames and the criteria followed for classifying Hindi verbs.