Analysis and Prediction of Dutch-English Code-switching in Dutch Social Media Messages

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  • Nina Dongen
چکیده

Multi-lingual phenomena as code-switching disturb widely used language interpretation tools, while the demand for such tools is rising due to the expanding worldwide popularity of online applications. This study explores code-switching between the lexically strong related languages Dutch and English in Twitter messages. Contrary to similar studies on code-switching, the focus is centred on the occurrence of English words in everyday Dutch, instead of a specific bilingual community. This research covers five main stages. First, a new Twitter corpus is collected of which a subset is manually annotated. Second, linguistic analysis of Dutch-English code-switching is performed. Third, several models are explored to perform a language identification task at word level. Fourth, several models are explored to perform automatic prediction of code-switching at word level. Finally, the best models for both tasks are combined and tested. Results show that multi-language data remain a challenge for computational approaches.

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تاریخ انتشار 2017