A little bit of bella pianura: Detecting Code-Mixing in Historical English Travel Writing

English. Code-mixing is the alternation between two or more languages in the same text. This phenomenon is very relevant in the travel domain, since it can provide new insight in the way foreign cultures are perceived and described to the readers. In this paper, we analyse EnglishItalian code-mixing in historical English travel writings about Italy. We retrain and compare two existing systems for the automatic detection of code-mixing, and analyse the semantic categories mostly connected to Italian. Besides, we release the domain corpus used in our experiments and the output of the extraction. Italiano. Il code-mixing è l’alternanza di lingue diverse nello stesso testo. Questo fenomeno è particolarmente importante nel dominio dei viaggi, poiché aiuta a comprendere meglio il modo in cui vengono percepite e descritte culture diverse da quella dell’autore. In questo lavoro, analizziamo il code-mixing tra inglese ed italiano nei testi di viaggio scritti in inglese e aventi come soggetto l’Italia. A questo scopo confrontiamo due sistemi esistenti per il riconoscimento automatico del code-mixing dopo averli ri-addestrati e analizziamo le categorie semantiche connesse alle parole/espressioni italiane. Inoltre, rilasciamo il corpus e il risultato

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