Sina Mandarin Alphabetical Words: A Web-driven Code-mixing Lexical Resource

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Abstract

Mandarin Alphabetical Word (MAW) is one indispensable component of Modern Chinese that demonstrates unique code-mixing idiosyncrasies influenced by language exchanges. Yet, this interesting phenomenon has not been properly addressed and is mostly excluded from the Chinese language system. This paper addresses the core problem of MAW identification and proposes to construct a large collection of MAWs from Sina Weibo (SMAW) using an automatic web-based technique which includes rule-based identification, informatics-based extraction, as well as Baidu search engine validation. A collection of 16,207 qualified SMAWs are obtained using this technique along with an annotated corpus of more than 200,000 sentences for linguistic research and applicable inquiries.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2020
EditorsKam-Fai Wong, Kevin Knight, Hua Wu
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages833-842
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148910
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020
Event1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2020 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 4 Dec 20207 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2020

Conference

Conference1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period4/12/207/12/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems

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