📰 VarDial 2020 — accepted papers

VarDial 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 27 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

All accepted papers (27)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Four-Dialect Treebank for Occitan: Building Process and Parsing ExperimentsAleksandra Miletic, Myriam Bras, Marianne Vergez-Couret et al.
2. A Report on the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2020Mihaela Gaman, Dirk Hovy, Radu Tudor Ionescu et al.
3. A Tokenization System for the Kurdish LanguageSina Ahmadi
4. A dual-encoding system for dialect classificationPetru Rebeja, Dan Cristea
5. ASR for Non-standardised Languages with Dialectal Variation: the case of Swiss GermanIuliia Nigmatulina, Tannon Kew, Tanja Samardzic
6. Applying Multilingual and Monolingual Transformer-Based Models for Dialect IdentificationCristian Popa, Vlad Ștefănescu
7. Bilingual Lexicon Induction across Orthographically-distinct Under-Resourced Dravidian LanguagesBharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Navaneethan Rajasekaran, Mihael Arcan et al.
8. Building a Corpus for the Zaza–Gorani Language FamilySina Ahmadi
9. Challenges in Neural Language Identification: NRC at VarDial 2020Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Cyril Goutte
10. Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related LanguagesMichael Gasser, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum, Nazareth Amlesom Kifleour summary
11. Combining Deep Learning and String Kernels for the Localization of Swiss German TweetsMihaela Gaman, Radu Tudor Ionescu
12. Dealing with dialectal variation in the construction of the Basque historical corpusAinara Estarrona, Izaskun Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare et al.
13. Dialect Identification under Domain Shift: Experiments with Discriminating Romanian and MoldavianÇağrı Çöltekin
14. Discriminating between standard Romanian and Moldavian tweets using filtered character ngramsAndrea Ceolin, Hong Zhang
15. Experiments in Language Variety Geolocation and Dialect IdentificationTommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén
16. Exploring the Power of Romanian BERT for Dialect IdentificationGeorge-Eduard Zaharia, Andrei-Marius Avram, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel et al.
17. Geolocation of Tweets with a BiLSTM Regression ModelPiyush Mishra
18. HeLju@VarDial 2020: Social Media Variety Geolocation with BERT ModelsYves Scherrer, Nikola Ljubešić
19. LSDC - A comprehensive dataset for Low Saxon Dialect ClassificationJanine Siewert, Yves Scherrer, Martijn Wieling et al.
20. Machine-oriented NMT Adaptation for Zero-shot NLP tasks: Comparing the Usefulness of Close and Distant LanguagesAmirhossein Tebbifakhr, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
21. Neural Machine Translation for translating into Croatian and SerbianMaja Popović, Alberto Poncelas, Marija Brkic et al.
22. Recycling and Comparing Morphological Annotation Models for Armenian Diachronic-Variational Corpus ProcessingChahan Vidal-Gorène, Victoria Khurshudyan, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos
23. Rediscovering the Slavic Continuum in Representations Emerging from Neural Models of Spoken Language IdentificationBadr M. Abdullah, Jacek Kudera, Tania Avgustinova et al.
24. Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American EnglishAlyssa Hwang, William R. Frey, Kathleen McKeownour summary
25. Uralic Language Identification (ULI) 2020 shared task dataset and the Wanca 2017 corporaTommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Niko Partanen et al.

See all 27 papers in VarDial 2020 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American EnglishWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Alyssa Hwang, William R. Frey, Kathleen McKeown2020 · 8 citations
2. Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related LanguagesMichael Gasser, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum, Nazareth Amlesom Kifle2020

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🧩Morphology (1)Semitic languages (1)English (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (2)🖥️Computer Science (2)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Columbia UniversityNew York · United States1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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