Research Article

Identification of Code-Switched Sentences and Words Using Language Modeling Approaches

Table 3

Results of code-switched word identification in Mandarin-Taiwanese code-switched sentences.

MethodsRecallPrecision -measure

RandomTop 117.65%18.32%17.98%
Top 231.62%16.41%21.61%
Top 349.26%17.05%25.33%

Word bigramTop 140.46%41.73%41.09%
Top 260.31%31.85%41.69%
Top 374.81%27.53%40.25%

Word trigramTop 114.50%15.83%15.14%
Top 235.88%20.35%25.97%
Top 355.73%22.53%32.09%

POS bigramTop 142.75%43.08%42.91%
Top 267.94%35.18%46.35%
Top 382.44%29.35%43.29%

POS trigramTop 152.67%53.49%53.08%
Top 273.28%39.34%51.20%
Top 383.97%31.98%46.32%