EN-ES-CS: An English-Spanish Code-Switching Twitter Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez


Abstract
Code-switching texts are those that contain terms in two or more different languages, and they appear increasingly often in social media. The aim of this paper is to provide a resource to the research community to evaluate the performance of sentiment classification techniques on this complex multilingual environment, proposing an English-Spanish corpus of tweets with code-switching (EN-ES-CS CORPUS). The tweets are labeled according to two well-known criteria used for this purpose: SentiStrength and a trinary scale (positive, neutral and negative categories). Preliminary work on the resource is already done, providing a set of baselines for the research community.
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L16-1655
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4149–4153
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1655
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David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. 2016. EN-ES-CS: An English-Spanish Code-Switching Twitter Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 4149–4153, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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EN-ES-CS: An English-Spanish Code-Switching Twitter Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis (Vilares et al., LREC 2016)
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