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title = "Predicting the presence of a Matrix Language in code-switching",
author = "Bullock, Barbara and
Guzm{\'a}n, Wally and
Serigos, Jacqueline and
Sharath, Vivek and
Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline",
editor = "Aguilar, Gustavo and
AlGhamdi, Fahad and
Soto, Victor and
Solorio, Thamar and
Diab, Mona and
Hirschberg, Julia",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-3208",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-3208",
pages = "68--75",
abstract = "One language is often assumed to be dominant in code-switching but this assumption has not been empirically tested. We operationalize the matrix language (ML) at the level of the sentence, using three common definitions from linguistics. We test whether these converge and then model this convergence via a set of metrics that together quantify the nature of C-S. We conduct our experiment on four Spanish-English corpora. Our results demonstrate that our model can separate some corpora according to whether they have a dominant ML or not but that the corpora span a range of mixing types that cannot be sorted neatly into an insertional vs. alternational dichotomy.",
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%A Bullock, Barbara
%A Guzmán, Wally
%A Serigos, Jacqueline
%A Sharath, Vivek
%A Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline
%Y Aguilar, Gustavo
%Y AlGhamdi, Fahad
%Y Soto, Victor
%Y Solorio, Thamar
%Y Diab, Mona
%Y Hirschberg, Julia
%S Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching
%D 2018
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Melbourne, Australia
%F bullock-etal-2018-predicting
%X One language is often assumed to be dominant in code-switching but this assumption has not been empirically tested. We operationalize the matrix language (ML) at the level of the sentence, using three common definitions from linguistics. We test whether these converge and then model this convergence via a set of metrics that together quantify the nature of C-S. We conduct our experiment on four Spanish-English corpora. Our results demonstrate that our model can separate some corpora according to whether they have a dominant ML or not but that the corpora span a range of mixing types that cannot be sorted neatly into an insertional vs. alternational dichotomy.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Predicting the presence of a Matrix Language in code-switching](https://aclanthology.org/W18-3208) (Bullock et al., ACL 2018)
ACL
- Barbara Bullock, Wally Guzmán, Jacqueline Serigos, Vivek Sharath, and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. 2018. Predicting the presence of a Matrix Language in code-switching. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, pages 68–75, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.