borrowing-or-codeswitching

Repo for the paper Borrowing or Codeswitching? Annotating for Finer-Grained Distinctions in Language Mixing at LREC 2022.

For info on this project and the dataset, feel free to reach the authors at elena.alvarez@lsi.uned.es or lignos@brandeis.edu.

• 📄 Paper
• ▶️ Pre-recorded video

For reference of this work see:

@InProceedings{alvarezmellado-lignos:2022:LREC,
      author    = {Alvarez-Mellado, Elena  and  Lignos, Constantine},
      title     = {Borrowing or Codeswitching? Annotating for Finer-Grained Distinctions in Language Mixing},
      booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
      month          = {June},
      year           = {2022},
      address        = {Marseille, France},
      publisher      = {European Language Resources Association},
      pages     = {3195--3201},
      abstract  = {We present a new corpus of Twitter data annotated for codeswitching and borrowing between Spanish and English. The corpus contains 9,500 tweets annotated at the token level with codeswitches, borrowings, and named entities. This corpus differs from prior corpora of codeswitching in that we attempt to clearly define and annotate the boundary between codeswitching and borrowing and do not treat common "internet-speak" (lol, etc.) as codeswitching when used in an otherwise monolingual context. The result is a corpus that enables the study and modeling of Spanish-English borrowing and codeswitching on Twitter in one dataset. We present baseline scores for modeling the labels of this corpus using Transformer-based language models. The annotation itself is released with a CC BY 4.0 license, while the text it applies to is distributed in compliance with the Twitter terms of service.},
      url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.342}
    }