Identifying Tension in Holocaust Survivors' Interview: Code-switching/Code-mixing as Cues

Xinyuan Xia, Lu Xiao, Kun Yang, Yueyue Wang

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Abstract

In this study, we thrive on finding out how code-switching and code-mixing (CS/CM) as a linguistic phenomenon could be a sign of tension in Holocaust survivors' interviews. We first created an interview corpus (a total of 39 interviews) that contains manually annotated CS/CM codes (a total of 802 quotations). We then compared our annotations with the tension places in the corpus. The tensions are identified by a computational tool. We found that most of our annotations were captured in the tension places, and it showed a relatively outstanding performance. The finding implies that CS/CM can be appropriate cues for detecting tension in this communication context. Our CS/CM annotated interview corpus is openly accessible. Aside from annotating and examining CS/CM occurrences, we annotated silence situations in this open corpus, as it is shown to be an indicator of tension in interpersonal communications in previous research. Making this corpus openly accessible, we call for more research endeavors on tension detection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
EditorsNicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages1490-1495
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9791095546726
StatePublished - 2022
Event13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 - Marseille, France
Duration: Jun 20 2022Jun 25 2022

Publication series

Name2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period6/20/226/25/22

Keywords

  • Code-mixing
  • Code-switching
  • Holocaust Interviews
  • Silence
  • Tension

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Library and Information Sciences
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Education

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