📰 VarDial 2024 — accepted papers

VarDial 2024 is the 2024 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 22 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.

📍 Mexico City, Mexico · 🗓 June 2024

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Can LLMs Handle Low-Resource Dialects? A Case Study on Translation and Common Sense Reasoning in Šariš ↗Viktória Ondrejová, Marek Šuppa5 citations
2. Incorporating Dialect Understanding Into LLM Using RAG and Prompt Engineering Techniques for Causal Commonsense Reasoning ↗Benedikt Perak, Slobodan Beliga, Ana Meštrović5 citations
3. What Drives Performance in Multilingual Language Models?Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal5 citations · our summary
4. Does Whisper Understand Swiss German? An Automatic, Qualitative, and Human Evaluation ↗Eyal Dolev, Clemens Lutz, Noëmi Aepli4 citations
5. Data-Augmentation-Based Dialectal Adaptation for LLMs ↗Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos3 citations
6. Highly Granular Dialect Normalization and Phonological Dialect Translation for Limburgish ↗Andreas Simons, Stefano De Pascale, Karlien Franco3 citations
7. DIALECT-COPA: Extending the Standard Translations of the COPA Causal Commonsense Reasoning Dataset to South Slavic Dialects ↗Nikola Ljubešić, Nada Galant, Sonja Benčina et al.2 citations
8. Language Identification of Philippine Creole Spanish: Discriminating Chavacano From Related Languages ↗Aileen Joan Vicente, Charibeth Cheng2 citations
9. Understanding Position Bias Effects on Fairness in Social Multi-Document Summarization ↗Olubusayo Olabisi, Ameeta Agrawal2 citations
10. VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2024: Commonsense Reasoning in Dialects and Multi-Label Similar Language Identification ↗Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, Goran Glavaš, Radu Tudor Ionescu et al.2 citations

All accepted papers (22)

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

1. Can LLMs Handle Low-Resource Dialects? A Case Study on Translation and Common Sense Reasoning in Šariš ↗Viktória Ondrejová, Marek Šuppa5 citations
2. Incorporating Dialect Understanding Into LLM Using RAG and Prompt Engineering Techniques for Causal Commonsense Reasoning ↗Benedikt Perak, Slobodan Beliga, Ana Meštrović5 citations
3. What Drives Performance in Multilingual Language Models?Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal5 citations · our summary
4. Does Whisper Understand Swiss German? An Automatic, Qualitative, and Human Evaluation ↗Eyal Dolev, Clemens Lutz, Noëmi Aepli4 citations
5. Data-Augmentation-Based Dialectal Adaptation for LLMs ↗Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos3 citations
6. Highly Granular Dialect Normalization and Phonological Dialect Translation for Limburgish ↗Andreas Simons, Stefano De Pascale, Karlien Franco3 citations
7. DIALECT-COPA: Extending the Standard Translations of the COPA Causal Commonsense Reasoning Dataset to South Slavic Dialects ↗Nikola Ljubešić, Nada Galant, Sonja Benčina et al.2 citations
8. Language Identification of Philippine Creole Spanish: Discriminating Chavacano From Related Languages ↗Aileen Joan Vicente, Charibeth Cheng2 citations
9. Understanding Position Bias Effects on Fairness in Social Multi-Document Summarization ↗Olubusayo Olabisi, Ameeta Agrawal2 citations
10. VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2024: Commonsense Reasoning in Dialects and Multi-Label Similar Language Identification ↗Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, Goran Glavaš, Radu Tudor Ionescu et al.2 citations
11. Brandeis at VarDial 2024 DSL-ML Shared Task: Multilingual Models, Simple Baselines and Data Augmentation ↗Jonne Sälevä, Chester Palen-Michel1 citation
12. How Well Do Tweets Represent Sub-Dialects of Egyptian Arabic?Mai Mohamed Eida, Mayar Nassar, Jonathan Dunn1 citation · our summary
13. JSI and WüNLP at the DIALECT-COPA Shared Task: In-Context Learning From Just a Few Dialectal Examples Gets You Quite Far ↗Nikola Ljubešić, Taja Kuzman, Peter Rupnik et al.1 citation
14. Multilingual Identification of English Code-Switching ↗Igor Sterner1 citation
15. Experiments in Multi-Variant Natural Language Processing for Nahuatl ↗Robert Pugh, Francis Tyers
16. Improving Multi-Label Classification of Similar Languages by Semantics-Aware Word Embeddings ↗The Ngo, Thi Anh Nguyen, My Ha et al.
17. Modeling Orthographic Variation in Occitan's Dialects ↗Zachary William Hopton, Noëmi Aepli
18. NoMusic - The Norwegian Multi-Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection Corpus ↗Petter Mæhlum, Yves Scherrer
19. One-Shot Prompt for Language Variety Identification ↗Nat Gillin
20. 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, Pia Sommerauer, Piek Vossen
21. The Role of Adverbs in Language Variety Identification: The Case of Portuguese Multi-Word Adverbs ↗Izabela Müller, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
22. When Elote, Choclo and Mazorca are not the Same. Isomorphism-Based Perspective to the Spanish Varieties Divergences ↗Cristina España-Bonet, Ankur Bhatt, Koel Dutta Chowdhury et al.

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (2)

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

1. What Drives Performance in Multilingual Language Models?Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Ameeta Agrawal2024 · 20 citations
2. How Well Do Tweets Represent Sub-Dialects of Egyptian Arabic?Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Mai Mohamed Eida, Mayar Nassar, Jonathan Dunn2024 · 4 citations

🧭 Top topics

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

🧠Language models & pretraining (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)Semitic languages (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.

🎓Ain Shams UniversityCairo · Egypt1 work here🎓Portland State UniversityPortland · United States1 work here🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · 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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