Abstract
This paper reports work on building a word-level language identification (LID) model for code-mixed Bangla-English social media data using subword embeddings, with an ultimate goal of using this LID module as the first step in a modular part-of-speech (POS) tagger in future research. This work reports preliminary results of a word-level LID model that uses a single bidirectional LSTM with subword embeddings trained on very limited code-mixed resources. At the time of writing, there are no previous reported results available in which subword embeddings are used for language identification with the Bangla-English code-mixed language pair. As part of the current work, a labeled resource for word-level language identification is also presented, by correcting 85.7% of labels from the 2016 ICON Whatsapp Bangla-English dataset. The trained model was evaluated on a test set of 4,015 tokens compiled from the 2015 and 2016 ICON datasets, and achieved a test accuracy of 93.61%.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.dclrl-1.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Jonne Sälevä, Constantine Lignos
- Venue:
- DCLRL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 76–82
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.dclrl-1.10
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Aparna Dutta. 2022. Word-level Language Identification Using Subword Embeddings for Code-mixed Bangla-English Social Media Data. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 76–82, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Word-level Language Identification Using Subword Embeddings for Code-mixed Bangla-English Social Media Data (Dutta, DCLRL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2022.dclrl-1.10.pdf
- Code
- aparnadutta/code-mixed-lid