Detecting Code-Switching between Turkish-English Language Pair

Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu, Gülşen Eryiğit


Abstract
Code-switching (usage of different languages within a single conversation context in an alternative manner) is a highly increasing phenomenon in social media and colloquial usage which poses different challenges for natural language processing. This paper introduces the first study for the detection of Turkish-English code-switching and also a small test data collected from social media in order to smooth the way for further studies. The proposed system using character level n-grams and conditional random fields (CRFs) obtains 95.6% micro-averaged F1-score on the introduced test data set.
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W18-6115
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Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text
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November
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2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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110–115
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-6115
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6115
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Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu and Gülşen Eryiğit. 2018. Detecting Code-Switching between Turkish-English Language Pair. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pages 110–115, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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