Code-mixed parse trees and how to find them

Anirudh Srinivasan, Sandipan Dandapat, Monojit Choudhury


Abstract
In this paper, we explore the methods of obtaining parse trees of code-mixed sentences and analyse the obtained trees. Existing work has shown that linguistic theories can be used to generate code-mixed sentences from a set of parallel sentences. We build upon this work, using one of these theories, the Equivalence-Constraint theory to obtain the parse trees of synthetically generated code-mixed sentences and evaluate them with a neural constituency parser. We highlight the lack of a dataset non-synthetic code-mixed constituency parse trees and how it makes our evaluation difficult. To complete our evaluation, we convert a code-mixed dependency parse tree set into “pseudo constituency trees” and find that a parser trained on synthetically generated trees is able to decently parse these as well.
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2020.calcs-1.8
Volume:
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Thamar Solorio, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram, Amitava Das, Mona Diab
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CALCS
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European Language Resources Association
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57–64
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.calcs-1.8
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Anirudh Srinivasan, Sandipan Dandapat, and Monojit Choudhury. 2020. Code-mixed parse trees and how to find them. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, pages 57–64, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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