Named entity recognition on code-switched data: Overview of the CALCS 2018 shared task

G Aguilar, F AlGhamdi, V Soto, M Diab… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
In the third shared task of the Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching
(CALCS) workshop, we focus on Named Entity Recognition (NER) on code-switched social …

A survey of code-switched speech and language processing

S Sitaram, KR Chandu, SK Rallabandi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Code-switching, the alternation of languages within a conversation or utterance, is a
common communicative phenomenon that occurs in multilingual communities across the …

Overview for the second shared task on language identification in code-switched data

G Molina, F AlGhamdi, M Ghoneim, A Hawwari… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present an overview of the second shared task on language identification in code-
switched data. For the shared task, we had code-switched data from two different language …

LILI: A simple language independent approach for language identification

M Al-Badrashiny, M Diab - Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
We introduce a generic Language Independent Framework for Linguistic Code Switch Point
Detection. The system uses characters level 5-grams and word level unigram language …

A Survey of Code-switched Arabic NLP: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions

I Hamed, C Sabty, S Abdennadher, NT Vu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Language in the Arab world presents a complex diglossic and multilingual setting, involving
the use of Modern Standard Arabic, various dialects and sub-dialects, as well as multiple …

Code-mixed Sentiment and Hate-speech Prediction

A Yadav, T Garg, M Klemen, M Ulcar, B Agarwal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Code-mixed discourse combines multiple languages in a single text. It is commonly used in
informal discourse in countries with several official languages, but also in many other …

Leveraging pretrained word embeddings for part-of-speech tagging of code switching data

F AlGhamdi, M Diab - arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.13359, 2019 - arxiv.org
Linguistic Code Switching (CS) is a phenomenon that occurs when multilingual speakers
alternate between two or more languages/dialects within a single conversation. Processing …

WASA: a web application for sequence annotation

F AlGhamdi, M Diab - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13008, 2019 - arxiv.org
Data annotation is an important and necessary task for all NLP applications. Designing and
implementing a web-based application that enables many annotators to annotate and enter …

Towards a Unified Framework for Computational Processing of Linguistic Code Switching

F AlGhamdi - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Linguistic Code Switching (CS) is a phenomenon that occurs when multilingual
speakers alternate between two or more languages or dialects during a single conversation …