Predicting the presence of a Matrix Language in code-switching
Barbara Bullock, Wally Guzmán, Jacqueline Serigos, Vivek Sharath, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Abstract
One language is often assumed to be dominant in code-switching but this assumption has not been empirically tested. We operationalize the matrix language (ML) at the level of the sentence, using three common definitions from linguistics. We test whether these converge and then model this convergence via a set of metrics that together quantify the nature of C-S. We conduct our experiment on four Spanish-English corpora. Our results demonstrate that our model can separate some corpora according to whether they have a dominant ML or not but that the corpora span a range of mixing types that cannot be sorted neatly into an insertional vs. alternational dichotomy.- Anthology ID:
- W18-3208
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 68–75
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-3208
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-3208
- Cite (ACL):
- Barbara Bullock, Wally Guzmán, Jacqueline Serigos, Vivek Sharath, and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. 2018. Predicting the presence of a Matrix Language in code-switching. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, pages 68–75, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Predicting the presence of a Matrix Language in code-switching (Bullock et al., ACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/W18-3208.pdf
- Data
- Universal Dependencies