📰 VarDial 2025 — accepted papers

VarDial 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 17 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE · 🗓 January 2025

All accepted papers (17)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Adapting Whisper for Regional Dialects: Enhancing Public Services for Vulnerable Populations in the United Kingdom ↗Melissa Torgbi, Andrew Clayman, Jordan J. Speight et al.
2. Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent DetectionVerena Blaschke, Felicia Körner, Barbara Plankour summary
3. CUFE@VarDial 2025 NorSID: Multilingual BERT for Norwegian Dialect Identification and Intent Detection ↗Michael Ibrahim
4. Common Ground, Diverse Roots: The Difficulty of Classifying Common Examples in Spanish Varieties ↗Javier A. Lopetegui, Arij Riabi, Djamé Seddah
5. Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2025: The NorSID Shared Task on Norwegian Slot, Intent and Dialect Identification ↗Yves Scherrer, Rob van der Goot, Petter Mæhlum
6. HiTZ at VarDial 2025 NorSID: Overcoming Data Scarcity with Language Transfer and Automatic Data Annotation ↗Jaione Bengoetxea, Mikel Zubillaga, Ekhi Azurmendi et al.
7. Improving Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection with Auxiliary Tasks: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Case Study ↗Xaver Maria Krückl, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank
8. Information Theory and Linguistic Variation: A Study of Brazilian and European Portuguese ↗Diego Alves
9. LTG at VarDial 2025 NorSID: More and Better Training Data for Slot and Intent Detection ↗Marthe Midtgaard, Petter Mæhlum, Yves Scherrer
10. Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal TranslationMd Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulosour summary
11. Learning Cross-Dialectal Morphophonology with Syllable Structure Constraints ↗Salam Khalifa, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner et al.
12. Leveraging Open-Source Large Language Models for Native Language Identification ↗Yee Man Ng, Ilia Markov
13. Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish Using Real-Life Variation DataAnne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke et al.our summary
14. Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian EnglishSteven Coats, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakesour summary
15. Retrieval of Parallelizable Texts Across Church Slavic Variants ↗Piroska Lendvai, Uwe Reichel, Anna Jouravel et al.
16. Testing the Boundaries of LLMs: Dialectal and Language-Variety Tasks ↗Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
17. Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy ↗Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Christoph Purschke

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (4)

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

1. Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish Using Real-Life Variation DataWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke, et al.2025 · 10 citations
2. Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal TranslationWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos2025 · 4 citations
3. Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent DetectionWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Verena Blaschke, Felicia Körner, Barbara Plank2025 · 3 citations
4. Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian EnglishWorkshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)Steven Coats, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes2025 · 1 citation

🧭 Top topics

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

English (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (4)🖥️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.

🎓Munich Center for Machine LearningMunich · Germany2 works here🎓Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMunich · Germany2 works here🎓University of LuxembourgLuxembourg · Luxembourg1 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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