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Hierarchical Character-Word Models for Language Identification

10 Aug 2016WS 2016 11arXiv:1608.03030archive 2025-07-28

Aaron Jaech, George Mulcaire, Shobhit Hathi, Mari Ostendorf, Noah A. Smith

Social media messages' brevity and unconventional spelling pose a challenge to language identification. We introduce a hierarchical model that learns character and contextualized word-level representations for language identification. Our method performs well against strong base- lines, and can also reveal code-switching.

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