Automatic Identification of Code-Switching Functions in Speech Transcripts (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Code-switching, or switching between languages, occurs for many reasons and has important linguistic, sociological, and cultural implications. |
| Approach: | They build a system to identify a wide range of functions for which speakers code-switch in everyday speech with an accuracy of 75% . they use a dataset of Hindi-English code-witched data to analyze their results . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can identify a wide range of functions for which speakers code-switch in everyday speech, with an accuracy of 75% across all functions. |
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