When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages Maria Medvedeva author Martin Kroon author Barbara Plank author 2017-04 text Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) Preslav Nakov editor Marcos Zampieri editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Shevin Malmasi editor Ahmed Ali editor Association for Computational Linguistics Valencia, Spain conference publication medvedeva-etal-2017-sparse 10.18653/v1/W17-1219 https://aclanthology.org/W17-1219/ 2017-04 156 163