🗣️ Simple-ESCWA: A simpler version of 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.

📄 Citation

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

@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},
}