Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024)

Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor 2024-06 Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico text conference publication vardial-2024-nlp https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.0/ VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2024: Commonsense Reasoning in Dialects and Multi-Label Similar Language Identification Adrian-Gabriel Chifu author Goran Glavaš author Radu Tudor Ionescu author Nikola Ljubešić author Aleksandra Miletić author Filip Miletić author Yves Scherrer author Ivan Vulić author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication chifu-etal-2024-vardial 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.1/ 2024-06 1 15 What Drives Performance in Multilingual Language Models? Sina Bagheri Nezhad author Ameeta Agrawal author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication bagheri-nezhad-agrawal-2024-drives 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.2/ 2024-06 16 27 Does Whisper Understand Swiss German? An Automatic, Qualitative, and Human Evaluation Eyal Dolev author Clemens Lutz author Noëmi Aepli author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication dolev-etal-2024-whisper 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.3/ 2024-06 28 40 How Well Do Tweets Represent Sub-Dialects of Egyptian Arabic? Mai Mohamed Eida author Mayar Nassar author Jonathan Dunn author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication mohamed-eida-etal-2024-well 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.4/ 2024-06 41 55 When Elote, Choclo and Mazorca are not the Same. Isomorphism-Based Perspective to the Spanish Varieties Divergences Cristina España-Bonet author Ankur Bhatt author Koel Dutta Chowdhury author Alberto Barrón-Cedeño author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication espana-bonet-etal-2024-elote 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.5/ 2024-06 56 77 Modeling Orthographic Variation in Occitan’s Dialects Zachary William Hopton author Noëmi Aepli author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication hopton-aepli-2024-modeling 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.6/ 2024-06 78 88 DIALECT-COPA: Extending the Standard Translations of the COPA Causal Commonsense Reasoning Dataset to South Slavic Dialects Nikola Ljubešić author Nada Galant author Sonja Benčina author Jaka Čibej author Stefan Milosavljević author Peter Rupnik author Taja Kuzman author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication ljubesic-etal-2024-dialect 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.7/ 2024-06 89 98 The Role of Adverbs in Language Variety Identification: The Case of Portuguese Multi-Word Adverbs Izabela Müller author Nuno Mamede author Jorge Baptista author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication muller-etal-2024-role 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.8/ 2024-06 99 106 NoMusic - The Norwegian Multi-Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection Corpus Petter Mæhlum author Yves Scherrer author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication maehlum-scherrer-2024-nomusic 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.9/ 2024-06 107 116 Understanding Position Bias Effects on Fairness in Social Multi-Document Summarization Olubusayo Olabisi author Ameeta Agrawal author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication olabisi-agrawal-2024-understanding 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.10/ 2024-06 117 129 Can LLMs Handle Low-Resource Dialects? A Case Study on Translation and Common Sense Reasoning in Šariš Viktória Ondrejová author Marek Šuppa author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication ondrejova-suppa-2024-llms 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.11/ 2024-06 130 139 Experiments in Multi-Variant Natural Language Processing for Nahuatl Robert Pugh author Francis Tyers author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication pugh-tyers-2024-experiments 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.12/ 2024-06 140 151 Highly Granular Dialect Normalization and Phonological Dialect Translation for Limburgish Andreas Simons author Stefano De Pascale author Karlien Franco author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication simons-etal-2024-highly 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.13/ 2024-06 152 162 Multilingual Identification of English Code-Switching Igor Sterner author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication sterner-2024-multilingual 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.14/ 2024-06 163 173 Studying Language Variation Considering the Re-Usability of Modern Theories, Tools and Resources for Annotating Explicit and Implicit Events in Centuries Old Text Stella Verkijk author Pia Sommerauer author Piek Vossen author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication verkijk-etal-2024-studying 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.15/ 2024-06 174 187 Language Identification of Philippine Creole Spanish: Discriminating Chavacano From Related Languages Aileen Joan Vicente author Charibeth Cheng author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication vicente-cheng-2024-language 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.16/ 2024-06 188 196 Data-Augmentation-Based Dialectal Adaptation for LLMs Fahim Faisal author Antonios Anastasopoulos author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication faisal-anastasopoulos-2024-data 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.17 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.17/ 2024-06 197 208 JSI and WüNLP at the DIALECT-COPA Shared Task: In-Context Learning From Just a Few Dialectal Examples Gets You Quite Far Nikola Ljubešić author Taja Kuzman author Peter Rupnik author Ivan Vulić author Fabian Schmidt author Goran Glavaš author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication ljubesic-etal-2024-jsi 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.18/ 2024-06 209 219 Incorporating Dialect Understanding Into LLM Using RAG and Prompt Engineering Techniques for Causal Commonsense Reasoning Benedikt Perak author Slobodan Beliga author Ana Meštrović author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication perak-etal-2024-incorporating 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.19 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.19/ 2024-06 220 229 One-Shot Prompt for Language Variety Identification Nat Gillin author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication gillin-2024-one 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.20 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.20/ 2024-06 230 234 Improving Multi-Label Classification of Similar Languages by Semantics-Aware Word Embeddings The Ngo author Thi Anh Nguyen author My Ha author Thi Minh Nguyen author Phuong Le-Hong author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication ngo-etal-2024-improving 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.21/ 2024-06 235 240 Brandeis at VarDial 2024 DSL-ML Shared Task: Multilingual Models, Simple Baselines and Data Augmentation Jonne Sälevä author Chester Palen-Michel author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024) Yves Scherrer editor Tommi Jauhiainen editor Nikola Ljubešić editor Marcos Zampieri editor Preslav Nakov editor Jörg Tiedemann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication saleva-palen-michel-2024-brandeis 10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.22 https://aclanthology.org/2024.vardial-1.22/ 2024-06 241 251