@inproceedings{chandu-etal-2018-language,
    title = "Language Informed Modeling of Code-Switched Text",
    author = "Chandu, Khyathi  and
      Manzini, Thomas  and
      Singh, Sumeet  and
      Black, Alan W.",
    editor = "Aguilar, Gustavo  and
      AlGhamdi, Fahad  and
      Soto, Victor  and
      Solorio, Thamar  and
      Diab, Mona  and
      Hirschberg, Julia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching",
    month = jul,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Melbourne, Australia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W18-3211/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-3211",
    pages = "92--97",
    abstract = "Code-switching (CS), the practice of alternating between two or more languages in conversations, is pervasive in most multi-lingual communities. CS texts have a complex interplay between languages and occur in informal contexts that make them harder to collect and construct NLP tools for. We approach this problem through Language Modeling (LM) on a new Hindi-English mixed corpus containing 59,189 unique sentences collected from blogging websites. We implement and discuss different Language Models derived from a multi-layered LSTM architecture. We hypothesize that encoding language information strengthens a language model by helping to learn code-switching points. We show that our highest performing model achieves a test perplexity of 19.52 on the CS corpus that we collected and processed. On this data we demonstrate that our performance is an improvement over AWD-LSTM LM (a recent state of the art on monolingual English)."
}