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# 🗣️ ESCWA-CS Corpus

The **ESCWA-CS Corpus** was collected over two days of meetings of the **United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)** held in 2019.  
It contains **intra-sentential code-switching** between Arabic and English, with some speakers—particularly from **Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco**—alternating between **Arabic and French**.

The dataset spans **approximately 2.8 hours of speech**, featuring **dialectal Arabic** and a **Code Mixing Index (CMI)** of around **28%**.  
It serves as a valuable resource for studying **bilingual and multilingual speech**, **dialectal variation**, and **code-mixing phenomena** in spontaneous meeting conversations.

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## 📘 Dataset Overview

| Feature | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| **Type** | Speech Corpus |
| **Languages** | Arabic, English, French (code-mixed) |
| **Collection Context** | ESCWA meetings, 2019 |
| **Duration** | ~2.8 hours |
| **Phenomena** | Code-switching, Dialectal Arabic |
| **Code Mixing Index (CMI)** | ~28% |

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## 📄 Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following paper:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{chowdhury2018towards,
	title={Towards Bangla Named Entity Recognition},
	author={Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj and Khan, Naira},
	booktitle={Proc. of ICCIT},
	
	year={2018},
	organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{ali_arabic_2021,
	title = {Arabic {Code}-{Switching} {Speech} {Recognition} using {Monolingual} {Data}},
	booktitle = {{{{Proc. of INTERSPEECH}}}},
	author = {Ali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur and Hussein, Amir and Yasser, Hifny},
	year = {2021},
}