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British Creole

Phonology meets ideology: the meaning of orthographic practices in British Creole

Mark Sebba

Language problems and language planning, 1998

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@article{sebba1998phonology, title = {Phonology meets ideology: the meaning of orthographic practices in British Creole}, author = {Sebba, Mark}, journal = {Language problems and language planning}, volume = {22}, number = {1}, pages = {19--47}, year = {1998}, publisher = {John Benjamins}, language = {British Creole} }

Guinea Creole

The Gulf of Guinea Creole Corpora

Tjerk Hagemeijer, Michel Généreux, Iris Hendrickx, Amália Mendes, Abigail Tiny, and Armando Zamora

In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14), 2014

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We present the process of building linguistic corpora of the Portuguese-related Gulf of Guinea creoles, a cluster of four historically related languages: Santome, Angolar, Principense and Fa dAmbô. We faced the typical difficulties of languages lacking an official status, such as lack of standard spelling, language variation, lack of basic language instruments, and small data sets, which comprise data from the late 19th century to the present. In order to tackle these problems, the compiled written and transcribed spoken data collected during field work trips were adapted to a normalized spelling that was applied to the four languages. For the corpus compilation we followed corpus linguistics standards. We recorded meta data for each file and added morphosyntactic information based on a part-of-speech tag set that was designed to deal with the specificities of these languages. The corpora of three of the four creoles are already available and searchable via an online web interface.

@inproceedings{hagemeijer-etal-2014-gulf, title = {The {G}ulf of {G}uinea Creole Corpora}, author = {Hagemeijer, Tjerk and G{\'e}n{\'e}reux, Michel and Hendrickx, Iris and Mendes, Am{\'a}lia and Tiny, Abigail and Zamora, Armando}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)}, month = may, year = {2014}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, url = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/438_Paper.pdf}, pages = {523--529}, language = {Guinea Creole} }

Guyanese

Dimensions of a Creole continuum: History, texts & linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole

John R Rickford

1987

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@book{rickford1987dimensions, title = {Dimensions of a Creole continuum: History, texts \& linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole}, author = {Rickford, John R}, year = {1987}, publisher = {Stanford University Press}, language = {Guyanese} }

Haitian Kreyol

Crowdsourced translation for emergency response in haiti: the global collaboration of local knowledge

Robert Munro

In In Relief 2.0 in Haiti, 2010

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@inproceedings{Munro10crowdsourcedtranslation, author = {Munro, Robert}, title = {Crowdsourced translation for emergency response in haiti: the global collaboration of local knowledge}, booktitle = {In Relief 2.0 in Haiti}, year = {2010}, language = {Haitian Kreyol} }
The Value of Monolingual Crowdsourcing in a Real-World Translation Scenario: Simulation using Haitian Creole Emergency SMS Messages

Chang Hu, Philip Resnik, Yakov Kronrod, Vladimir Eidelman, Olivia Buzek, and Benjamin B. Bederson

In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2011

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@inproceedings{hu-etal-2011-value, title = {The Value of Monolingual Crowdsourcing in a Real-World Translation Scenario: Simulation using {H}aitian {C}reole Emergency {SMS} Messages}, author = {Hu, Chang and Resnik, Philip and Kronrod, Yakov and Eidelman, Vladimir and Buzek, Olivia and Bederson, Benjamin B.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation}, month = jul, year = {2011}, address = {Edinburgh, Scotland}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/W11-2148}, pages = {399--404}, language = {Haitian Kreyol} }

Mauritian Creole

Anou Tradir: Experiences In Building Statistical Machine Translation Systems For Mauritian Creole Languages – Creole, English, French

Raj Dabre, Aneerav Sukhoo, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2014

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@inproceedings{dabre-etal-2014-anou, title = {Anou Tradir: Experiences In Building Statistical Machine Translation Systems For Mauritian Creole Languages {--} Creole, {E}nglish, {F}rench}, author = {Dabre, Raj and Sukhoo, Aneerav and Bhattacharyya, Pushpak}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Processing}, month = dec, year = {2014}, address = {Goa, India}, publisher = {NLP Association of India}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/W14-5113}, pages = {82--88}, language = {Mauritian Creole} }
The making of Mauritian Creole Creole. Analyses diachroniques à partir des textes anciens

Philip Baker, and Guillaume Fon Sing

2007

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@book{baker2007making, title = {The making of Mauritian Creole Creole. Analyses diachroniques {\`a} partir des textes anciens}, author = {Baker, Philip and Sing, Guillaume Fon}, number = {9}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Battlebridge}, language = {Mauritian Creole} }

Nigerian Pidgin

Nigerian PidginNER : Comprehensive Named Entity Recognition for 5 Nigerian Languages

Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Ife Okoh, Vitus Onuigwe, Mary Idera Salami, Opeyemi Osakuade, Sharon Ibejih, and Usman Abdullahi Musa

ArXiv, 2021

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@article{Oyewusi2021Nigerian PidginNERC, title = {Nigerian PidginNER : Comprehensive Named Entity Recognition for 5 Nigerian Languages}, author = {Oyewusi, Wuraola Fisayo and Adekanmbi, Olubayo and Okoh, Ife and Onuigwe, Vitus and Salami, Mary Idera and Osakuade, Opeyemi and Ibejih, Sharon and Musa, Usman Abdullahi}, journal = {ArXiv}, year = {2021}, volume = {abs/2105.00810}, language = {Nigerian Pidgin} }
Towards End-to-End Training of Automatic Speech Recognition for Nigerian Pidgin

Daniel Ajisafe, Oluwabukola Grace Adegboro, Esther Oduntan, and Tayo Oladiran Arulogun

ArXiv, 2020

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@article{Ajisafe2020TowardsET, title = {Towards End-to-End Training of Automatic Speech Recognition for Nigerian Pidgin}, author = {Ajisafe, Daniel and Adegboro, Oluwabukola Grace and Oduntan, Esther and Arulogun, Tayo Oladiran}, journal = {ArXiv}, year = {2020}, volume = {abs/2010.11123}, language = {Nigerian Pidgin} }
Semantic Enrichment of Nigerian Pidgin English for Contextual Sentiment Classification

Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, and Olalekan Akinsande

ArXiv, 2020

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@article{Oyewusi2020SemanticEO, title = {Semantic Enrichment of Nigerian Pidgin English for Contextual Sentiment Classification}, author = {Oyewusi, Wuraola Fisayo and Adekanmbi, Olubayo and Akinsande, Olalekan}, journal = {ArXiv}, year = {2020}, volume = {abs/2003.12450}, language = {Nigerian Pidgin} }
Developing Resources for Automated Speech Processing of the African Language Nigerian Pidgin (Nigerian Pidgin)

B. Bigi, B. Caron, and Oyelere S. Abiola

In , 2017

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@inproceedings{Bigi2017DevelopingRF, title = {Developing Resources for Automated Speech Processing of the African Language Nigerian Pidgin (Nigerian Pidgin)}, author = {Bigi, B. and Caron, B. and Abiola, Oyelere S.}, year = {2017}, language = {Nigerian Pidgin} }
Towards Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Baselines for Nigerian Pidgin

Orevaoghene Ahia, and Kelechi Ogueji

ArXiv, 2020

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@article{Ahia2020TowardsSA, title = {Towards Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Baselines for Nigerian Pidgin}, author = {Ahia, Orevaoghene and Ogueji, Kelechi}, journal = {ArXiv}, year = {2020}, volume = {abs/2003.12660}, language = {Nigerian Pidgin} }
A Surface-Syntactic UD Treebank for Naija

Bernard Caron, Marine Courtin, Kim Gerdes, and Sylvain Kahane

In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2019), 2019

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@inproceedings{caron-etal-2019-surface, title = {A Surface-Syntactic {UD} Treebank for {N}aija}, author = {Caron, Bernard and Courtin, Marine and Gerdes, Kim and Kahane, Sylvain}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2019)}, month = aug, year = {2019}, address = {Paris, France}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-7803}, doi = {10.18653/v1/W19-7803}, pages = {13--24}, language = {Nigerian Pidgin} }
Semantic Enrichment of Nigerian Pidgin English for Contextual Sentiment Classification

Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, and O. Akinsande

ArXiv, 2020

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@article{Oyewusi2020SemanticEP, title = {Semantic Enrichment of Nigerian Pidgin English for Contextual Sentiment Classification}, author = {Oyewusi, Wuraola Fisayo and Adekanmbi, Olubayo and Akinsande, O.}, journal = {ArXiv}, year = {2020}, volume = {abs/2003.12450}, language = {Nigerian Pidgin} }

Singlish

Developing a concept-level knowledge base for sentiment analysis in Singlish

Rajiv Bajpai, Soujanya Poria, Danyuan Ho, and Erik Cambria

CoRR, 2017

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/BajpaiPHC17, author = {Bajpai, Rajiv and Poria, Soujanya and Ho, Danyuan and Cambria, Erik}, title = {Developing a concept-level knowledge base for sentiment analysis in Singlish}, journal = {CoRR}, volume = {abs/1707.04408}, year = {2017}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04408}, eprinttype = {arXiv}, eprint = {1707.04408}, timestamp = {Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:26:41 +0100}, biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/BajpaiPHC17.bib}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}, language = {Singlish} }
Developing a concept-level knowledge base for sentiment analysis in Singlish

Rajiv Bajpai, Soujanya Poria, Danyuan Ho, and Erik Cambria

CoRR, 2017

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/BajpaiPHC18, author = {Bajpai, Rajiv and Poria, Soujanya and Ho, Danyuan and Cambria, Erik}, title = {Developing a concept-level knowledge base for sentiment analysis in Singlish}, journal = {CoRR}, volume = {abs/1707.04408}, year = {2017}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04408}, eprinttype = {arXiv}, eprint = {1707.04408}, timestamp = {Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:26:41 +0100}, biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/BajpaiPHC17.bib}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}, language = {Singlish} }
Universal Dependencies Parsing for Colloquial Singaporean English

Hongmin Wang, Yue Zhang, GuangYong Leonard Chan, Jie Yang, and Hai Leong Chieu

In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2017

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Singlish can be interesting to the ACL community both linguistically as a major creole based on English, and computationally for information extraction and sentiment analysis of regional social media. We investigate dependency parsing of Singlish by constructing a dependency treebank under the Universal Dependencies scheme, and then training a neural network model by integrating English syntactic knowledge into a state-of-the-art parser trained on the Singlish treebank. Results show that English knowledge can lead to 25% relative error reduction, resulting in a parser of 84.47% accuracies. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to use neural stacking to improve cross-lingual dependency parsing on low-resource languages. We make both our annotation and parser available for further research.

@inproceedings{wang-etal-2017-universal, title = {{U}niversal {D}ependencies Parsing for Colloquial Singaporean {E}nglish}, author = {Wang, Hongmin and Zhang, Yue and Chan, GuangYong Leonard and Yang, Jie and Chieu, Hai Leong}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)}, month = jul, year = {2017}, address = {Vancouver, Canada}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/P17-1159}, doi = {10.18653/v1/P17-1159}, pages = {1732--1744}, language = {Singlish} }

West African Pidgin

PidginUNMT: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation from West African Pidgin to English

Kelechi Ogueji, and Orevaoghene Ahia

ArXiv, 2019

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@article{Ogueji2019PidginUNMTUN, title = {PidginUNMT: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation from West African Pidgin to English}, author = {Ogueji, Kelechi and Ahia, Orevaoghene}, journal = {ArXiv}, year = {2019}, volume = {abs/1912.03444}, language = {West African Pidgin} }