HeLI-based Experiments in Swiss German Dialect Identification

Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén


Abstract
In this paper we present the experiments and results by the SUKI team in the German Dialect Identification shared task of the VarDial 2018 Evaluation Campaign. Our submission using HeLI with adaptive language models obtained the best results in the shared task with a macro F1-score of 0.686, which is clearly higher than the other submitted results. Without some form of unsupervised adaptation on the test set, it might not be possible to reach as high an F1-score with the level of domain difference between the datasets of the shared task. We describe the methods used in detail, as well as some additional experiments carried out during the shared task.
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W18-3929
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018)
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Nikola Ljubešić, Jörg Tiedemann, Shervin Malmasi, Ahmed Ali
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VarDial
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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254–262
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Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, and Krister Lindén. 2018. HeLI-based Experiments in Swiss German Dialect Identification. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018), pages 254–262, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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