Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor 2021-04 Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine text conference publication vardial-2021-nlp https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.0/ Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2021 Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi author Mihaela Găman author Radu Tudor Ionescu author Heidi Jauhiainen author Tommi Jauhiainen author Krister Lindén author Nikola Ljubešić author Niko Partanen author Ruba Priyadharshini author Christoph Purschke author Eswari Rajagopal author Yves Scherrer author Marcos Zampieri author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication chakravarthi-etal-2021-findings-vardial https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.1/ 2021-04 1 11 Hierarchical Transformer for Multilingual Machine Translation Albina Khusainova author Adil Khan author Adín Ramírez Rivera author Vitaly Romanov author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication khusainova-etal-2021-hierarchical https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.2/ 2021-04 12 20 Regression Analysis of Lexical and Morpho-Syntactic Properties of Kiezdeutsch Diego Frassinelli author Gabriella Lapesa author Reem Alatrash author Dominik Schlechtweg author Sabine Schulte im Walde author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication frassinelli-etal-2021-regression https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.3/ 2021-04 21 27 Representations of Language Varieties Are Reliable Given Corpus Similarity Measures Jonathan Dunn author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication dunn-2021-representations https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.4/ 2021-04 28 38 Whit’s the Richt Pairt o Speech: PoS tagging for Scots Harm Lameris author Sara Stymne author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication lameris-stymne-2021-whits https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.5/ 2021-04 39 48 Efficient Unsupervised NMT for Related Languages with Cross-Lingual Language Models and Fidelity Objectives Rami Aly author Andrew Caines author Paula Buttery author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication aly-etal-2021-efficient https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.6/ 2021-04 49 59 Fine-tuning Distributional Semantic Models for Closely-Related Languages Kushagra Bhatia author Divyanshu Aggarwal author Ashwini Vaidya author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication bhatia-etal-2021-fine https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.7/ 2021-04 60 66 Discriminating Between Similar Nordic Languages René Haas author Leon Derczynski author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication haas-derczynski-2021-discriminating https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.8/ 2021-04 67 75 Naive Bayes-based Experiments in Romanian Dialect Identification Tommi Jauhiainen author Heidi Jauhiainen author Krister Lindén author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication jauhiainen-etal-2021-naive https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.9/ 2021-04 76 83 UnibucKernel: Geolocating Swiss German Jodels Using Ensemble Learning Mihaela Găman author Sebastian Cojocariu author Radu Tudor Ionescu author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication mihaela-etal-2021-unibuckernel https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.10/ 2021-04 84 95 Optimizing a Supervised Classifier for a Difficult Language Identification Problem Yves Bestgen author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication bestgen-2021-optimizing https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.11/ 2021-04 96 101 Comparing the Performance of CNNs and Shallow Models for Language Identification Andrea Ceolin author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication ceolin-2021-comparing https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.12/ 2021-04 102 112 Dialect Identification through Adversarial Learning and Knowledge Distillation on Romanian BERT George-Eduard Zaharia author Andrei-Marius Avram author Dumitru-Clementin Cercel author Traian Rebedea author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication zaharia-etal-2021-dialect https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.13/ 2021-04 113 119 Comparing Approaches to Dravidian Language Identification Tommi Jauhiainen author Tharindu Ranasinghe author Marcos Zampieri author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication jauhiainen-etal-2021-comparing https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.14/ 2021-04 120 127 N-gram and Neural Models for Uralic Language Identification: NRC at VarDial 2021 Gabriel Bernier-Colborne author Serge Leger author Cyril Goutte author 2021-04 text Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Kiyv, Ukraine conference publication bernier-colborne-etal-2021-n https://aclanthology.org/2021.vardial-1.15/ 2021-04 128 134