Code-mixing is the alternation between two or more languages in the same text. This phenomenon is very relevant in the travel domain, since it can provide new insight in the way foreign cultures are perceived and described to the readers. In this paper, we analyse EnglishItalian code-mixing in historical English travel writings about Italy. We retrain and compare two existing systems for the automatic detection of code-mixing, and analyse the semantic categories mostly connected to Italian. Besides, we release the domain corpus used in our experiments and the output of the extraction
A little bit of bella pianura: Detecting Code-Mixing in Historical English Travel Writing / Sprugnoli, Rachele; Tonelli, Sara; Moretti, Giovanni; Menini, Stefano. - (2017), pp. 304-309. (Intervento presentato al convegno CLiC-it 2017 tenutosi a Roma nel 11-13 December 2017).
A little bit of bella pianura: Detecting Code-Mixing in Historical English Travel Writing
Rachele Sprugnoli;
2017-01-01
Abstract
Code-mixing is the alternation between two or more languages in the same text. This phenomenon is very relevant in the travel domain, since it can provide new insight in the way foreign cultures are perceived and described to the readers. In this paper, we analyse EnglishItalian code-mixing in historical English travel writings about Italy. We retrain and compare two existing systems for the automatic detection of code-mixing, and analyse the semantic categories mostly connected to Italian. Besides, we release the domain corpus used in our experiments and the output of the extractionI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
