A Survey of Code-switching: Linguistic and Social Perspectives for Language Technologies (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | linguistic and social aspects of code-switching are not discussed in the literature in linguistics. |
| Approach: | They propose to examine linguistic and social aspects of code-switching across a wide range of languages in a survey of the literature in linguistics and language technologies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework aims to increase the clarity and depth of computational investigations of C-S and bridge the fields so that they might be mutually reinforcing. |
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