Improved Sentiment Detection via Label Transfer from Monolingual to Synthetic Code-Switched Text (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing sentiment detection methods are trained on sentiment-labeled monolingual text. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for synthesizing labeled code-switched text from monolingual text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves sentiment labeling accuracy for three languages. |
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