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

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor 2019-06 Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan text conference publication ws-2019-nlp https://aclanthology.org/W19-1400/ A Report on the Third VarDial Evaluation Campaign Marcos Zampieri author Shervin Malmasi author Yves Scherrer author Tanja Samardžić author Francis Tyers author Miikka Silfverberg author Natalia Klyueva author Tung-Le Pan author Chu-Ren Huang author Radu Tudor Ionescu author Andrei M Butnaru author Tommi Jauhiainen author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication zampieri-etal-2019-report 10.18653/v1/W19-1401 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1401/ 2019-06 1 16 Improving Cuneiform Language Identification with BERT Gabriel Bernier-Colborne author Cyril Goutte author Serge Léger author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication bernier-colborne-etal-2019-improving 10.18653/v1/W19-1402 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1402/ 2019-06 17 25 Joint Approach to Deromanization of Code-mixed Texts Rashed Rubby Riyadh author Grzegorz Kondrak author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication riyadh-kondrak-2019-joint 10.18653/v1/W19-1403 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1403/ 2019-06 26 34 Char-RNN for Word Stress Detection in East Slavic Languages Ekaterina Chernyak author Maria Ponomareva author Kirill Milintsevich author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication chernyak-etal-2019-char 10.18653/v1/W19-1404 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1404/ 2019-06 35 41 Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification Jonathan Dunn author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication dunn-2019-modeling 10.18653/v1/W19-1405 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1405/ 2019-06 42 53 Language Discrimination and Transfer Learning for Similar Languages: Experiments with Feature Combinations and Adaptation Nianheng Wu author Eric DeMattos author Kwok Him So author Pin-zhen Chen author Çağrı Çöltekin author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication wu-etal-2019-language 10.18653/v1/W19-1406 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1406/ 2019-06 54 63 Variation between Different Discourse Types: Literate vs. Oral Katrin Ortmann author Stefanie Dipper author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication ortmann-dipper-2019-variation 10.18653/v1/W19-1407 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1407/ 2019-06 64 79 Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Rakhine (Arakanese) Thazin Myint Oo author Ye Kyaw Thu author Khin Mar Soe author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication myint-oo-etal-2019-neural 10.18653/v1/W19-1408 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1408/ 2019-06 80 88 Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts Tommi Jauhiainen author Heidi Jauhiainen author Tero Alstola author Krister Lindén author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication jauhiainen-etal-2019-language 10.18653/v1/W19-1409 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1409/ 2019-06 89 98 Leveraging Pretrained Word Embeddings for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Code Switching Data Fahad AlGhamdi author Mona Diab author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication alghamdi-diab-2019-leveraging 10.18653/v1/W19-1410 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1410/ 2019-06 99 109 Toward a deep dialectological representation of Indo-Aryan Chundra Cathcart author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication cathcart-2019-toward 10.18653/v1/W19-1411 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1411/ 2019-06 110 119 Naive Bayes and BiLSTM Ensemble for Discriminating between Mainland and Taiwan Variation of Mandarin Chinese Li Yang author Yang Xiang author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication yang-xiang-2019-naive 10.18653/v1/W19-1412 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1412/ 2019-06 120 127 BAM: A combination of deep and shallow models for German Dialect Identification. Andrei M Butnaru author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication butnaru-2019-bam 10.18653/v1/W19-1413 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1413/ 2019-06 128 137 The R2I_LIS Team Proposes Majority Vote for VarDial’s MRC Task Adrian-Gabriel Chifu author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication chifu-2019-r2i 10.18653/v1/W19-1414 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1414/ 2019-06 138 143 Initial Experiments In Cross-Lingual Morphological Analysis Using Morpheme Segmentation Vladislav Mikhailov author Lorenzo Tosi author Anastasia Khorosheva author Oleg Serikov author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication mikhailov-etal-2019-initial 10.18653/v1/W19-1415 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1415/ 2019-06 144 152 Neural and Linear Pipeline Approaches to Cross-lingual Morphological Analysis Çağrı Çöltekin author Jeremy Barnes author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication coltekin-barnes-2019-neural 10.18653/v1/W19-1416 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1416/ 2019-06 153 164 Ensemble Methods to Distinguish Mainland and Taiwan Chinese Hai Hu author Wen Li author He Zhou author Zuoyu Tian author Yiwen Zhang author Liang Zou author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication hu-etal-2019-ensemble 10.18653/v1/W19-1417 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1417/ 2019-06 165 171 SC-UPB at the VarDial 2019 Evaluation Campaign: Moldavian vs. Romanian Cross-Dialect Topic Identification Cristian Onose author Dumitru-Clementin Cercel author Stefan Trausan-Matu author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication onose-etal-2019-sc 10.18653/v1/W19-1418 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1418/ 2019-06 172 177 Discriminating between Mandarin Chinese and Swiss-German varieties using adaptive language models Tommi Jauhiainen author Krister Lindén author Heidi Jauhiainen author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication jauhiainen-etal-2019-discriminating 10.18653/v1/W19-1419 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1419/ 2019-06 178 187 Investigating Machine Learning Methods for Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts Ehsan Doostmohammadi author Minoo Nassajian author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication doostmohammadi-nassajian-2019-investigating 10.18653/v1/W19-1420 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1420/ 2019-06 188 193 TwistBytes - Identification of Cuneiform Languages and German Dialects at VarDial 2019 Fernando Benites author Pius von Däniken author Mark Cieliebak author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication benites-etal-2019-twistbytes 10.18653/v1/W19-1421 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1421/ 2019-06 194 201 DTeam @ VarDial 2019: Ensemble based on skip-gram and triplet loss neural networks for Moldavian vs. Romanian cross-dialect topic identification Diana Tudoreanu author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication tudoreanu-2019-dteam 10.18653/v1/W19-1422 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1422/ 2019-06 202 208 Experiments in Cuneiform Language Identification Gustavo Henrique Paetzold author Marcos Zampieri author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication paetzold-zampieri-2019-experiments 10.18653/v1/W19-1423 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1423/ 2019-06 209 213 Comparing Pipelined and Integrated Approaches to Dialectal Arabic Neural Machine Translation Pamela Shapiro author Kevin Duh author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication shapiro-duh-2019-comparing 10.18653/v1/W19-1424 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1424/ 2019-06 214 222 Cross-lingual Annotation Projection Is Effective for Neural Part-of-Speech Tagging Matthias Huck author Diana Dutka author Alexander Fraser author 2019-06 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Shervin Malmasi editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Ann Arbor, Michigan conference publication huck-etal-2019-cross 10.18653/v1/W19-1425 https://aclanthology.org/W19-1425/ 2019-06 223 233