# ConCSE: Unified Contrastive Learning and Augmentation for Code-Switched Embeddings

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00120 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.00120/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 42 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

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- [SimCSE: Simple Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.08821/) (2021)
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- [DiffCSE: Difference-based Contrastive Learning for Sentence Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.10298/) (2022)
- [ESimCSE: Enhanced Sample Building Method for Contrastive Learning of Unsupervised Sentence Embedding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.04380/) (2021)
- [Code-Switched Language Models Using Neural Based Synthetic Data from Parallel Sentences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.08582/) (2019)
- [Video Contrastive Learning with Global Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.02722/) (2021)
- [Extending a Parser to Distant Domains Using a Few Dozen Partially Annotated Examples](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.06556/) (2018)
- [Code-Switching Language Modeling using Syntax-Aware Multi-Task Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.12070/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Code Mixologist : A Practitioner's Guide to Building Code-Mixed LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.11181/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper examines the Code-Switching (CS) phenomenon where two languages intertwine within a single utterance. There exists a noticeable need for research on the CS between English and Korean. We highlight that the current Equivalence Constraint (EC) theory for CS in other languages may only partially capture English-Korean CS complexities due to the intrinsic grammatical differences between the languages. We introduce a novel Koglish dataset tailored for English-Korean CS scenarios to mitigate such challenges. First, we constructed the Koglish-GLUE dataset to demonstrate the importance and need for CS datasets in various tasks. We found the differential outcomes of various foundation multilingual language models when trained on a monolingual versus a CS dataset. Motivated by this, we hypothesized that SimCSE, which has shown strengths in monolingual sentence embedding, would have limitations in CS scenarios. We construct a novel Koglish-NLI (Natural Language Inference) dataset using a CS augmentation-based approach to verify this. From this CS-augmented dataset Koglish-NLI, we propose a unified contrastive learning and augmentation method for code-switched embeddings, ConCSE, highlighting the semantics of CS sentences. Experimental results validate the proposed ConCSE with an average performance enhancement of 1.77% on the Koglish-STS(Semantic Textual Similarity) tasks.
