Language Varieties
Towards a Better Exploitation of the Brown ‘Family’ Corpora in Diachronic Studies of British and American English Language Varieties
... aim of standardising the future parallel corpora of British English or American English of other pe- riods (Francis, 1965 in Leech and Smith, 2005). Following this idea, the LOB corpus 2 of written British English was ...
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Morphological features help POS tagging of unknown words across language varieties
... the varieties of Mandarin written in the PRC (Mainland and Hong Kong) and Taiwan differ in orthography, lexicon, and even grammar about as much as the British, American, and Australian varieties of English ...
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Language Varieties of the Abstracts in Journal Articles Written by Chinese and American Scholars: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis using the Gramulator
... natural language processing tool, the Gramulator (McCarthy, Watanabe, & Lamkin, ...the language varieties in the specific contexts that are most characteristic to the Chinese corpus but are least ...
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Computationally efficient discrimination between language varieties with large feature vectors and regularized classifiers
... closely-related language varieties has been used to test and benchmark ...on language and dialect identification (Jauhiainen et ...and language varieties (Zampieri et ...and ...
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Investigating Opinion Mining through Language Varieties: a Case Study of Brazilian and European Portuguese tweets
... Two studies [Fonseca and Alu´ısio 2016, Garcia et al. 2014] focused on Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging applications through the two main Portuguese language varieties: Brazilian and European. In [Fonseca and ...
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Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties
... et al., 2016), Hindi and Urdu (Durrani et al., 2010), or Arabic dialects (Harrat et al., 2017). Notably, Pourdamghani and Knight (2017) build an unsu- pervised deciphering model to translate between closely related ...
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Automatic Identification of Arabic Language Varieties and Dialects in Social Media
... There have been several works on Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, most tradi- tional techniques have focused on MSA, since it is understood across a wide spectrum of audience in the Arab world ...
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Identification of Differences between Dutch Language Varieties with the VarDial2018 Dutch Flemish Subtitle Data
... two varieties differ from each other and if so, in what ...the varieties, but mostly we are interested in which features are apparently used in distinguishing between Northern and Southern ...
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Extending the tool, or how to annotate historical language varieties
... The specific case study in this paper presents ad- ditional advantages. On the one hand, FreeLing is an open source resource that is well documented and actively maintained. In addition, due to the modu- larity of this ...
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Combining Ontologies and Neural Networks for Analyzing Historical Language Varieties A Case Study in Middle Low German
... novel language reverses the process normally applied for the purpose: Instead of training and evaluating against a given tagset, we decomponse it into individual features which are predicted independently by a ...
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The question of English language varieties in Japanese English language teaching and learning
... 1.1.1 The Policy Perspective Long before the significance of the English language as a global lingua.franca and the appreciation of different English varieties were strongly recognized, [r] ...
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Discriminating between Indo Aryan Languages Using SVM Ensembles
... A first attempting of benchmarking the identification of very similar languages in multilingual settings are the aforementioned Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL) shared tasks. The DSL tasks have been ...
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German Dialect Identification Using Classifier Ensembles
... This challenge motivated the organization of a number of competitions such as the Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL) shared tasks which included language varieties and similar languages ...
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The Role of Gender in the Process Translation
... female language, varieties language influence the way of both male and ...men’s language has been written but nothing in particular has been ...the language where the women’s and men’s ...
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Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages, Varieties and Dialects
... and language varieties, thus filling the research gap in fine-grained language identification, which was previously perceived as a solved ...real-world language identification scenario, we ...
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Language Identification and Morphosyntactic Tagging: The Second VarDial Evaluation Campaign
... Dutch varieties, and no Netherlandic/Flemish corpus of this size existed, we believe the task was a scientifically interesting step towards developing and comparing language variety classification models ...
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Improving the Character Ngram Model for the DSL Task with BM25 Weighting and Less Frequently Used Feature Sets
... This paper presents the participation of the Cen- tre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL) in the fourth edition of the VarDial Evaluation Cam- paign, which deals with the automatic identifica- tion of similar languages ...
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Vanilla Classifiers for Distinguishing between Similar Languages
... Word n-grams have also proven effective for discriminating between languages and language varieties. Malmasi and Dras (2015) achieved the best performance in the closed track of the DSL 2015 shared task, ...
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Discriminating between Similar Languages with Word level Convolutional Neural Networks
... Discriminating between Similar Lan- guages (DSL) is a challenging task addressed at the VarDial Workshop series. We report on our participation in the DSL shared task with a two-stage system. In the first stage, ...
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The Enactment of Academic Language Policy in the International University: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
... around language and cultural differences, cultural differences must be viewed as neither absolute nor separate, but in relation to each other (Rizvi, ...and language varieties, interculturality ...
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