Sina Mandarin Alphabetical Words:A Web-driven Code-mixing Lexical Resource (2020.aacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Mandarin Alphabetical Words (MAWs) are a key component of Modern Chinese . they are characterized by unique code-mixing idiosyncrasies influenced by language exchanges . |
| Approach: | They propose to construct a large collection of Mandarin Alphabetic Words from Sina Weibo . they propose to use a web-based technique to identify and validate MAWs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method identifies 16,207 Mandarin Alphabetic Words (MAWs) using a web-based technique . the results show that the proposed method is useful for linguistic research and inquiries . |
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