Predicting Code-switching in Multilingual Communication for Immigrant Communities

Evangelos E. Papalexakis; Dong-Phuong Nguyen; A. Seza Doğruöz

Predicting Code-switching in Multilingual Communication for Immigrant Communities

Evangelos E. Papalexakis
, Dong-Phuong Nguyen
, A. Seza Doğruöz

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Immigrant communities host multilingual speakers who switch across languages and cultures in their daily communication practices. Although there are in-depth linguistic descriptions of code-switching across different multilingual communication settings, there is a need for automatic prediction of code-switching in large datasets. We use emoticons and multi-word expressions as novel features to predict code-switching in a large online discussion forum for the Turkish-Dutch immigrant community in the Netherlands. Our results indicate that multi-word expressions are powerful features to predict code-switching.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg, PA, USA
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	42-50
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-937284-96-1
Publication status	Published - 25 Oct 2014
Event	First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching - Doha, Qatar Duration: 25 Oct 2014 → 25 Oct 2014

Publication series

Name
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics

Workshop

Workshop	First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching
Period	25/10/14 → 25/10/14
Other	25 October 2014

Keywords

EWI-25499
code-switching
METIS-309773
Social Media
IR-94058
natural language processing

Access to Document

W14-3905

http://aclweb.org/anthology/W14-3905

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E. Papalexakis, E, Nguyen, D-P & Doğruöz, AS 2014, Predicting Code-switching in Multilingual Communication for Immigrant Communities. in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 42-50, First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, 25/10/14. <http://aclweb.org/anthology/W14-3905>

Predicting Code-switching in Multilingual Communication for Immigrant Communities. / E. Papalexakis, Evangelos; Nguyen, Dong-Phuong; Doğruöz, A. Seza.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014. p. 42-50.

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