---
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
language:
- en
- zh
language_bcp47:
- en
- zh-CN
license:
- cc-by-sa-4.0
multilinguality:
- multilingual
pretty_name: 'ASCEND: A Spontaneous Chinese-English Dataset for Code-switching in
  Multi-turn Conversation'
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
task_ids:
- code-switching
- speech-recognition
---

# Dataset Card for ASCEND

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-instances)
  - [Data Splits](#data-instances)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)

## Dataset Description

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- **Repository:** [Needs More Information]
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06223
- **Leaderboard:** [Needs More Information]
- **Point of Contact:** [Needs More Information]

### Dataset Summary

ASCEND (A Spontaneous Chinese-English Dataset) introduces a high-quality resource of spontaneous multi-turn conversational dialogue Chinese-English code-switching corpus collected in Hong Kong. ASCEND consists of 10.62 hours of spontaneous speech with a total of ~12.3K utterances. The corpus is split into 3 sets: training, validation, and test with a ratio of 8:1:1 while maintaining a balanced gender proportion on each set.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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### Languages

Chinese and English

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

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### Data Fields

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### Data Splits

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## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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#### Who are the source language producers?

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### Annotations

#### Annotation process

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#### Who are the annotators?

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### Personal and Sensitive Information

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

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### Discussion of Biases

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### Other Known Limitations

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## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

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### Licensing Information

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### Citation Information

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