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| - ar |
| - en |
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| - Arabic |
| - English |
| - Code-switching |
| pretty_name: ESCWA-CS Corpus |
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| # 🗣️ ESCWA-CS Corpus |
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| The **ESCWA-CS Corpus** was collected over two days of meetings of the **United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)** held in 2019. |
| It contains **intra-sentential code-switching** between Arabic and English, with some speakers—particularly from **Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco**—alternating between **Arabic and French**. |
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| The dataset spans **approximately 2.8 hours of speech**, featuring **dialectal Arabic** and a **Code Mixing Index (CMI)** of around **28%**. |
| It serves as a valuable resource for studying **bilingual and multilingual speech**, **dialectal variation**, and **code-mixing phenomena** in spontaneous meeting conversations. |
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| ## 📘 Dataset Overview |
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| | Feature | Description | |
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| | **Type** | Speech Corpus | |
| | **Languages** | Arabic, English, French (code-mixed) | |
| | **Collection Context** | ESCWA meetings, 2019 | |
| | **Duration** | ~2.8 hours | |
| | **Phenomena** | Code-switching, Dialectal Arabic | |
| | **Code Mixing Index (CMI)** | ~28% | |
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| ## 📄 Citation |
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| If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following paper: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @inproceedings{chowdhury2018towards, |
| title={Towards Bangla Named Entity Recognition}, |
| author={Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj and Khan, Naira}, |
| booktitle={Proc. of ICCIT}, |
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| year={2018}, |
| organization={IEEE} |
| } |
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| @inproceedings{ali_arabic_2021, |
| title = {Arabic {Code}-{Switching} {Speech} {Recognition} using {Monolingual} {Data}}, |
| booktitle = {{{{Proc. of INTERSPEECH}}}}, |
| author = {Ali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur and Hussein, Amir and Yasser, Hifny}, |
| year = {2021}, |
| } |
