A Fast, Compact, Accurate Model for Language Identification of Codemixed Text
Yuan Zhang, Jason Riesa, Daniel Gillick, Anton Bakalov, Jason Baldridge, David Weiss
Abstract
We address fine-grained multilingual language identification: providing a language code for every token in a sentence, including codemixed text containing multiple languages. Such text is prevalent online, in documents, social media, and message boards. We show that a feed-forward network with a simple globally constrained decoder can accurately and rapidly label both codemixed and monolingual text in 100 languages and 100 language pairs. This model outperforms previously published multilingual approaches in terms of both accuracy and speed, yielding an 800x speed-up and a 19.5% averaged absolute gain on three codemixed datasets. It furthermore outperforms several benchmark systems on monolingual language identification.- Anthology ID:
- D18-1030
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- October-November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Editors:
- Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 328–337
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D18-1030
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D18-1030
- Cite (ACL):
- Yuan Zhang, Jason Riesa, Daniel Gillick, Anton Bakalov, Jason Baldridge, and David Weiss. 2018. A Fast, Compact, Accurate Model for Language Identification of Codemixed Text. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 328–337, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Fast, Compact, Accurate Model for Language Identification of Codemixed Text (Zhang et al., EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/D18-1030.pdf