The Howard University System Submission for the Shared Task in Language Identification in Spanish-English Codeswitching

摘要

This paper describes the Howard University system for the language identification shared task of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching. Our system is based on prior work on Swahili-English token-level language identification. Our system primarily uses character n-gram, prefix and suffix features, letter case and special character features along with previously existing tools. These are then combined with generated label probabilities of the immediate context of the token for the final system.