📰 VarDial 2026: all accepted papers

32 papers · the most cited first · ← VarDial 2026

1. Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties ↗Akriti Dhasmana, Aarohi Srivastava, David Chiang2 citations
2. A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared TaskKhaleel Hamad, Ahmad Al-Najjarour summary
3. A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User CommentsAnne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschkeour summary
4. AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban et al.our summary
5. Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal GenerationJonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen et al.our summary
6. Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic TranslationAbdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han, Chenghua Linour summary
7. Bridging Dialectal Variation: A Phonetic Transcription Tool for Tamil ↗Ahrane Mahaganapathy, Sumirtha Karunakaran, Kavitha Navakulan et al.
8. Building ASR Resources for the Hutsul Dialect of Ukrainian ↗Roman Kyslyi, Artem Orlovskyi, Pavlo Khomenko et al.
9. Crowdsourcing Piedmontese to Test LLMs on Non-Standard OrthographyGianluca Vico, Jindřich Libovickýour summary
10. Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification ModelsAli Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan et al.our summary
11. Do Large Language Models Adapt to Language Variation across Socioeconomic Status? ↗Elisa Bassignana, Mike Zhang, Dirk Hovy et al.
12. Effects of Speaker Bias in Dialect Identification and Automatic Transcription with Self-Supervised Speech Models ↗Olli Kuparinen
13. Evaluation Framework for Transfer Learning between Closely Related Lects: A Case Study of Lemko ↗Ilia Afanasev
14. Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek DialectsChara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti et al.our summary
15. Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English ↗Deniz Kaya Dilsiz, Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi
16. From FusHa to Folk: Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Arabic Language Models ↗Abdulmuizz Khalak, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos Spanakis
17. German-English Code-Switching in Large Language Models ↗Firat Cem Aksüt, Stefan Hillmann, Pia Knoeferle et al.
18. How Should We Model the Probability of a Language? ↗Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clérice et al.
19. Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-ExpertsSanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu et al.our summary
20. Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian LanguagesMihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta et al.our summary
21. Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its EffectsXabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel, Marcos Garciaour summary
22. MBZUAI at AMIYA Shared Task 2026: Adapting Open-Source LLMs for Dialectal Arabic ↗Rana Gaber, Yara Allam, Serag Amin et al.
23. Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR DecodingAbdulhai Alali, Abderrahmane Issamour summary
24. NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement LearningSujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du et al.our summary
25. OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect IdentificationOriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice et al.our summary
26. On the Intelligibility of Romance Language Varieties: Spanish and Portuguese in Europe and America ↗Liviu P. Dinu, Ana Sabina Uban, Teodor-George Marchitan et al.
27. Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM ClassificationNathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer et al.our summary
28. OpenLID-v3: Improving the Precision of Closely Related Language Identification – An Experience Report ↗Mariia Fedorova, Nikolay Arefyev, Maja Buljan et al.
29. Perplexity as a Metric for Dialectal Distance: A Computational Study of Greek Varieties ↗Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Erofili Psaltaki, Dimitrios Papadakis et al.
30. Regional Variation in the Performance of ASR Models on Croatian and SerbianTanja Samardžić, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešićour summary
31. SDNLP at AMIYA 2026: Syrian Arabic Dialect Modeling with LoRAHasan Alkhder, Mohammad Abboushour summary
32. Syllable Structures Across Arabic VarietiesAbdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa et al.our summary

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