CUFE@VarDial 2025 NorSID: Multilingual BERT for Norwegian Dialect Identification and Intent Detection

Michael Ibrahim


Abstract
Dialect identification is crucial in enhancing various tasks, including sentiment analysis, as a speaker’s geographical origin can significantly affect their perspective on a topic, also, intent detection has gained significant traction in natural language processing due to its applications in various domains, including virtual assistants, customer service automation, and information retrieval systems. This work describes a system developed for VarDial 2025: Norwegian slot and intent detection and dialect identification shared task (Scherrer et al., 2025), a challenge designed to address the dialect recognition and intent detection problems for a low-resource language like Norwegian. More specifically, this work investigates the performance of different BERT models in solving this problem. Finally, the output of the multilingual version of the BERT model was submitted to this shared task, the developed system achieved a weighted F1 score of 79.64 for dialect identification and an accuracy of 94.38 for intent detection.
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2025.vardial-1.17
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Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Yves Scherrer, Tommi Jauhiainen, Nikola Ljubešić, Preslav Nakov, Jorg Tiedemann, Marcos Zampieri
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VarDial | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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220–223
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Michael Ibrahim. 2025. CUFE@VarDial 2025 NorSID: Multilingual BERT for Norwegian Dialect Identification and Intent Detection. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, pages 220–223, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CUFE@VarDial 2025 NorSID: Multilingual BERT for Norwegian Dialect Identification and Intent Detection (Ibrahim, VarDial 2025)
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