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Part-of-speech tagging for English-Spanish code-switched text

Year: 2008

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Code-switching is an interesting linguistic phenomenon commonly observed in highly bilingual communities.It consists of mixing languages in the same conversational event.This paper presents results on Part-of-Speech tagging Spanish-English code-switched discourse.We explore different approaches to exploit existing resources for both languages that range from simple heuristics, to language identification, to machine learning.The best results are achieved by training a machine learning algorithm with features that combine the output of an English and a Spanish Partof-Speech tagger.

Source: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613852

Authors: Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu

Institution: The University of Texas at Dallas

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: HCC-Small: Collaborative Research: Statistical Methods for Learning to Diagnose Specific Language Impairment in Bilingual Children