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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Dialects, Topic Models, and Border Effects: The Rusyn Case
%A Rabus, Achim
%A Scherrer, Yves
%Y Piskorski, Jakub
%Y Přibáň, Pavel
%Y Nakov, Preslav
%Y Yangarber, Roman
%Y Marcinczuk, Michal
%S Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025)
%D 2025
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
%@ 978-1-959429-57-9
%F rabus-scherrer-2025-dialects
%X In this contribution, we present, discuss, and apply a data-driven approach for analyzing varieties of the Slavic minority language Carpathian Rusyn spoken in different countries in the Carpathian region. Using topic modeling, a method originally developed for text mining, we show that the Rusyn varieties are subject to border effects, i.e., vertical convergence and horizontal divergence, due to language contacts with their respective umbrella languages Polish, Slovak and Standard Ukrainian. Additionally, we show that the method is suitable for uncovering fieldworker isoglosses, i.e., different transcription principles in an otherwise homogeneous dataset.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.bsnlp-1.5
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.bsnlp-1.5/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.bsnlp-1.5
%P 38-43

Markdown (Informal)

[Dialects, Topic Models, and Border Effects: The Rusyn Case](https://aclanthology.org/2025.bsnlp-1.5/) (Rabus & Scherrer, BSNLP 2025)

• Dialects, Topic Models, and Border Effects: The Rusyn Case (Rabus & Scherrer, BSNLP 2025)

ACL

• Achim Rabus and Yves Scherrer. 2025. Dialects, Topic Models, and Border Effects: The Rusyn Case. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025), pages 38–43, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.