CoSSAT: Code-Switched Speech Annotation Tool

Sanket Shah, Pratik Joshi, Sebastin Santy, Sunayana Sitaram


Abstract
Code-switching refers to the alternation of two or more languages in a conversation or utterance and is common in multilingual communities across the world. Building code-switched speech and natural language processing systems are challenging due to the lack of annotated speech and text data. We present a speech annotation interface CoSSAT, which helps annotators transcribe code-switched speech faster, more easily and more accurately than a traditional interface, by displaying candidate words from monolingual speech recognizers. We conduct a user study on the transcription of Hindi-English code-switched speech with 10 annotators and describe quantitative and qualitative results.
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D19-5907
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Aggregating and Analysing Crowdsourced Annotations for NLP
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November
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2019
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Hong Kong
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Silviu Paun, Dirk Hovy
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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48–52
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10.18653/v1/D19-5907
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Sanket Shah, Pratik Joshi, Sebastin Santy, and Sunayana Sitaram. 2019. CoSSAT: Code-Switched Speech Annotation Tool. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Aggregating and Analysing Crowdsourced Annotations for NLP, pages 48–52, Hong Kong. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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