MICHAEL: Mining Character-level Patterns for Arabic Dialect Identification (MADAR Challenge)

Dhaou Ghoul, Gaël Lejeune


Abstract
We present MICHAEL, a simple lightweight method for automatic Arabic Dialect Identification on the MADAR travel domain Dialect Identification (DID). MICHAEL uses simple character-level features in order to perform a pre-processing free classification. More precisely, Character N-grams extracted from the original sentences are used to train a Multinomial Naive Bayes classifier. This system achieved an official score (accuracy) of 53.25% with 1<=N<=3 but showed a much better result with character 4-grams (62.17% accuracy).
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W19-4627
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Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Wassim El-Hajj, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Fethi Bougares, Walid Magdy, Imed Zitouni, Nadi Tomeh, Mahmoud El-Haj, Wajdi Zaghouani
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WANLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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229–233
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-4627
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10.18653/v1/W19-4627
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Dhaou Ghoul and Gaël Lejeune. 2019. MICHAEL: Mining Character-level Patterns for Arabic Dialect Identification (MADAR Challenge). In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 229–233, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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