BAEC

• The Bangor Arabic–English Code-switching (BAEC) corpus

• consists of 45,251 words and is 436 KB in size.

• It was collected from different Facebook pages.

• It includes code-switching between:

  1. MSA and English;
  2. the Saudi dialect and English;
  3. the Egyptian dialect and English.

• Manually annotated, it has been produced in XML.

If you use the BAEC corpus, Please cite this paper:

Tarmom, T., Teahan, W., Atwell, E. and Alsalka, M.A., 2020. Compression versus traditional machine learning classifiers to detect code-switching in varieties and dialects: Arabic as a case study. Natural Language Engineering, 26(6), pp.663-676.