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Code-switching in Irish tweets: a preliminary analysis

Lynn, Teresa and Scannell, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0003-4075-9524 (2019) Code-switching in Irish tweets: a preliminary analysis. In: Third Celtic Language Technology Workshop 2019, 19 Aug 2019, Dublin, Ireland.

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Abstract

As is the case with many languages, research into code-switching in Modern Irish has, until recently, mainly been focused on the spoken language. Online usergenerated content (UGC) is less restrictive than traditional written text, allowing for code-switching, and as such, provides a new platform for text-based research in this field of study. This paper reports on the annotation of (English) code-switching in a corpus of 1496 Irish tweets and provides a computational analysis of the nature of code-switching amongst Irish speaking Twitter users, with a view to providing a basis for future linguistic and socio-linguistic studies.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Workshop
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Irish language; Gaeilge; Twitter; Bilingual; Bilingual; inter-sentential
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: Proceedings of the Third Celtic Language Technology Workshop. . ACL Anthology.
Publisher:ACL Anthology
Official URL:https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-6905
Copyright Information:© 2019 the Authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, CCBY-ND.
Funders:Irish Government Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under the GaelTech Project, Science Foundation Ireland in the ADAPT Centre (Grant 13/RC/2106) at Dublin City University
ID Code:23598
Deposited On:25 Jul 2019 15:01 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 12 Sep 2019 13:18

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