Code-Switching Patterns Can Be an Effective Route to Improve Performance of Downstream NLP Applications: A Case Study of Humour, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection

Srijan Bansal, Vishal Garimella, Ayush Suhane, Jasabanta Patro, Animesh Mukherjee


Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate how code-switching patterns can be utilised to improve various downstream NLP applications. In particular, we encode various switching features to improve humour, sarcasm and hate speech detection tasks. We believe that this simple linguistic observation can also be potentially helpful in improving other similar NLP applications.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.96
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1018–1023
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.96
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.96
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Srijan Bansal, Vishal Garimella, Ayush Suhane, Jasabanta Patro, and Animesh Mukherjee. 2020. Code-Switching Patterns Can Be an Effective Route to Improve Performance of Downstream NLP Applications: A Case Study of Humour, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1018–1023, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Code-Switching Patterns Can Be an Effective Route to Improve Performance of Downstream NLP Applications: A Case Study of Humour, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection (Bansal et al., ACL 2020)
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