| Challenge: | a corpus of Arabic-English code-switching (CS) spontaneous speech is collected in an Egyptian university soundproof room . the language in Egypt is rather complex and poses many challenges to natural language processing (NLP) |
| Approach: | They present an Egyptian Arabic-English code-switching (CS) spontaneous speech corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is designed to be used in automatic speech recognition systems . it provides a useful resource for analyzing the CS phenomenon from linguistic, sociological, and psychological perspectives. |
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