Language Informed Modeling of Code-Switched Text

Khyathi Chandu, Thomas Manzini, Sumeet Singh, Alan W. Black


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).
Anthology ID:
W18-3211
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching
Month:
July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
92–97
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-3211
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-3211
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Cite (ACL):
Khyathi Chandu, Thomas Manzini, Sumeet Singh, and Alan W. Black. 2018. Language Informed Modeling of Code-Switched Text. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, pages 92–97, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Language Informed Modeling of Code-Switched Text (Chandu et al., ACL 2018)
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