@inproceedings{ndubuisi-obi-etal-2019-wetin,
    title = "Wetin dey with these comments? Modeling Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting Code-switching Behavior in {N}igerian Online Discussions",
    author = "Ndubuisi-Obi, Innocent  and
      Ghosh, Sayan  and
      Jurgens, David",
    editor = "Korhonen, Anna  and
      Traum, David  and
      M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'i}s",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/P19-1625/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1625",
    pages = "6204--6214",
    abstract = "Multilingual individuals code switch between languages as a part of a complex communication process. However, most computational studies have examined only one or a handful of contextual factors predictive of switching. Here, we examine Naija-English code switching in a rich contextual environment to understand the social and topical factors eliciting a switch. We introduce a new corpus of 330K articles and accompanying 389K comments labeled for code switching behavior. In modeling whether a comment will switch, we show that topic-driven variation, tribal affiliation, emotional valence, and audience design all play complementary roles in behavior."
}