%0 Conference Proceedings %T Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017 %A Zampieri, Marcos %A Malmasi, Shervin %A Ljubešić, Nikola %A Nakov, Preslav %A Ali, Ahmed %A Tiedemann, Jörg %A Scherrer, Yves %A Aepli, Noëmi %Y Nakov, Preslav %Y Zampieri, Marcos %Y Ljubešić, Nikola %Y Tiedemann, Jörg %Y Malmasi, Shevin %Y Ali, Ahmed %S Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) %D 2017 %8 April %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Valencia, Spain %F zampieri-etal-2017-findings %X We present the results of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, which we organized as part of the fourth edition of the VarDial workshop at EACL’2017. This year, we included four shared tasks: Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL), Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI), German Dialect Identification (GDI), and Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing (CLP). A total of 19 teams submitted runs across the four tasks, and 15 of them wrote system description papers. %R 10.18653/v1/W17-1201 %U https://aclanthology.org/W17-1201 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-1201 %P 1-15