Detecting Unassimilated Borrowings in Spanish: An Annotated Corpus and Approaches to Modeling (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a corpus of Spanish newswire rich in unassimilated lexical borrowings is used to identify the language of a word. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a corpus of Spanish newswire rich in unassimilated lexical borrowings and evaluate how models perform on this task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models fed with subword embeddings and Transformer-based embeddables on the Spanish newswire corpus. |
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