Part-of-speech tagging for English-Spanish code-switched text
Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu · 2008
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.