Papers by Gideon Mendels
Collecting Code-Switched Data from Social Media (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a new method to identify code-switched data from the web is needed . code-witching is defined as the tendency of bilinguals to switch between languages . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that automatically collects code-switched tweets from the web . they use crowd-sourcing to obtain language identifiers for a subset of 8,000 tweets . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method identifies tweets as code-switched in languages L1 and L2 . it is compared to a Spanish-English corpus of code-witched tweets . |