@InProceedings{ciobanu-malmasi-dinu:2018:W18-39,
  author    = {Ciobanu, Alina Maria  and  Malmasi, Shervin  and  Dinu, Liviu P.},
  title     = {German Dialect Identification Using Classifier Ensembles},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2018)},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {288--294},
  abstract  = {In this paper we present the GDI classification entry to the second German Dialect Identification (GDI) shared task organized within the scope of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2018. We present a system based on SVM classifier ensembles trained on characters and words. The system was trained on a collection of speech transcripts of five Swiss-German dialects provided by the organizers. The transcripts included in the dataset contained speakers from Basel, Bern, Lucerne, and Zurich. Our entry in the challenge reached 62.03% F1 score and was ranked third out of eight teams.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-3933}
}