%0 Conference Proceedings %T Detection of Similar Languages and Dialects Using Deep Supervised Autoencoder %A Parida, Shantipriya %A Villatoro-Tello, Esau %A Kumar, Sajit %A Fabien, Maël %A Motlicek, Petr %Y Bhattacharyya, Pushpak %Y Sharma, Dipti Misra %Y Sangal, Rajeev %S Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) %D 2020 %8 December %I NLP Association of India (NLPAI) %C Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India %F parida-etal-2020-detection %X Language detection is considered a difficult task especially for similar languages, varieties, and dialects. With the growing number of online content in different languages, the need for reliable and robust language detection tools also increased. In this work, we use supervised autoencoders with a bayesian optimizer for language detection and highlights its efficiency in detecting similar languages with dialect variance in comparison to other state-of-the-art techniques. We evaluated our approach on multiple datasets (Ling10, Discriminating between Similar Language (DSL), and Indo-Aryan Language Identification (ILI)). Obtained results demonstrate that SAE are higly effective in detecting languages, up to a 100% accuracy in the Ling10. Similarly, we obtain a competitive performance in identifying similar languages, and dialects, 92% and 85% for DSL ans ILI datasets respectively. %U https://aclanthology.org/2020.icon-main.49 %P 362-367