A Survey of Code-switched Speech and Language Processing
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Code-switching, the alternation of languages within a conversation or utterance, is a common communicative phenomenon that occurs in multilingual communities across the world. This survey reviews computational approaches for code-switched Speech and Natural Language Processing. We motivate why processing code-switched text and speech is essential for building intelligent agents and systems that interact with users in multilingual communities. As code-switching data and resources are scarce, we list what is available in various code-switched language pairs with the language processing tasks they can be used for. We review code-switching research in various Speech and NLP applications, including language processing tools and end-to-end systems. We conclude with future directions and open problems in the field.
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- 2025Towards Holistic Evaluation of Large Audio-Language Models: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 38
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- 2021Code-Mixing on Sesame Street: Dawn of the Adversarial Polyglotscited by 23
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