GupShup: An Annotated Corpus for Abstractive Summarization of Open-Domain Code-Switched Conversations

Understand

Code-switching is the communication phenomenon where speakers switch between different languages during a conversation.

• With the widespread adoption of conversational agents and chat platforms, code-switching has become an integral part of written conversations in many multi-lingual communities worldwide.
• This makes it essential to develop techniques for summarizing and understanding these conversations.
• Towards this objective, we introduce abstractive summarization of Hindi-English code-switched conversations and develop the first code-switched conversation summarization dataset - GupShup, which contains over 6,831 conversations in Hindi-English and their corresponding human-annotated summaries in English and Hindi-English.