VarDial in the Wild: Industrial Applications of LID Systems for Closely-Related Language Varieties

Fritz Hohl, Soh-eun Shim


Abstract
This report describes first an industrial use case for identifying closely related languages, e.g.dialects, namely the detection of languages of movie subtitle documents. We then presenta 2-stage architecture that is able to detect macrolanguages in the first stage and languagevariants in the second. Using our architecture, we participated in the DSL-TL Shared Task of the VarDial 2023 workshop. We describe the results of our experiments. In the first experiment we report an accuracy of 97.8% on a set of 460 subtitle files. In our second experimentwe used DSL-TL data and achieve a macroaverage F1 of 76% for the binary task, and 54% for the three-way task in the dev set. In the open track, we augment the data with named entities retrieved from Wikidata and achieve minor increases of about 1% for both tracks.
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2023.vardial-1.21
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Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023)
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May
Year:
2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Yves Scherrer, Tommi Jauhiainen, Nikola Ljubešić, Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann, Marcos Zampieri
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VarDial
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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213–221
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.vardial-1.21
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.vardial-1.21
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Fritz Hohl and Soh-eun Shim. 2023. VarDial in the Wild: Industrial Applications of LID Systems for Closely-Related Language Varieties. In Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023), pages 213–221, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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