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# Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)

Workshop series Published by [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)

- [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/venues/vardial/)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/S7407088486)

[**27** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/works/) · [**517** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/works/) · [**246** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/works/) · [**2017–2026** years of the works here](#years)

## Works by year

Works in our library by year 27 dated works from 2017 to 2026; the busiest year is 2026 with 16.

**The numbers**

| Year | Works |
| --- | --- |
| 2026 | 16 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 |

## Top topics

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

[Semitic languages (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Speech & spoken language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (27)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (25)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Marcos Zampieri**3 works here · 436 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-zampieri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nikola Ljubešić**3 works here · 430 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikola-ljubesic/) · [🧑‍🔬**Preslav Nakov**3 works here · 430 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tanja Samardžić**3 works here · 180 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-samardzic/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ahmed Ali**2 works here · 430 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-ali/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jörg Tiedemann**2 works here · 430 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorg-tiedemann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shervin Malmasi**2 works here · 430 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shervin-malmasi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yves Scherrer**2 works here · 430 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-scherrer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mamta**2 works here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mamta/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chris van der Lee**1 work here · 169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-van-der-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**James Glass**1 work here · 169 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-glass/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jonathan Dunn**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-dunn/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) · [🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🎓**University of Helsinki** Helsinki · Finland 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of Zagreb** Zagreb · Croatia 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zagreb/) · [🔬**Jožef Stefan Institute** Ljubljana · Slovenia 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/jozef-stefan-institute/) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**Brigham Young University** Provo · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brigham-young-university/) · [🎓**University of Verona** Verona · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-verona/) · [🎓**Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná** Curitiba · Brazil 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-tecnologica-federal-do-parana/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/)

## Works in our library (27)

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

1. [**Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017**Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubešić, et al.*2017 · 261 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2017-findings-vardial-evaluation-campaign/)
2. [**Language Identification and Morphosyntactic Tagging: The Second VarDial Evaluation Campaign**Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, et al.*2018 · 169 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2018-language-identification-morphosyntactic-tagging-second/)
3. [**Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification**Jonathan Dunn*2019 · 23 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dunn-2019-modeling-global-syntactic-variation-english/)
4. [**Optimizing the Size of Subword Vocabularies in Dialect Classification**Vani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardžić, Ljiljana Dolamic, et al.*2023 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kanjirangat-2023-optimizing-size-subword-vocabularies-dialect/)
5. [**Leveraging Pretrained Word Embeddings for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Code Switching Data**Fahad AlGhamdi, Mona Diab*2019 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alghamdi-2019-leveraging-pretrained-word-embeddings-part/)
6. [**Investigating Machine Learning Methods for Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts**Ehsan Doostmohammadi, Minoo Nassajian*2019 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doostmohammadi-2019-investigating-machine-learning-methods-language/)
7. [**Experiments in Cuneiform Language Identification**Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, Marcos Zampieri*2019 · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paetzold-2019-experiments-cuneiform-language-identification/)
8. [**The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between Amharic and Tigrigna Varieties**Tekabe Legesse Feleke*2017 · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feleke-2017-similarity-mutual-intelligibility-between-amharic/)
9. [**Comparing Pipelined and Integrated Approaches to Dialectal Arabic Neural Machine Translation**Pamela Shapiro, Kevin Duh*2019 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shapiro-2019-comparing-pipelined-integrated-approaches-dialectal/)
10. [**Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek Dialects**Chara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti, et al.*2026 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsoukala-2026-extending-asr-evaluation-resources-modern/)
11. [**Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic Translation**Abdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han, Chenghua Lin*2026 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabdullah-2026-ara-hope-human-centric-post/)
12. [**Whit's the Richt Pairt o Speech: PoS tagging for Scots**Harm Lameris, Sara Stymne*2021 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lameris-2021-whit-s-richt-pairt-o/)
13. [**NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning**Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gollapalli-2026-nus-ids-amiya-vardial-2026/)
14. [**A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared Task**Khaleel Hamad, Ahmad Al-Najjar*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamad-2026-closed-track-system-palestinian-arabic/)
15. [**Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-Experts**Sanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maheshwari-2026-improving-dialect-robustness-large-language/)
16. [**OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect Identification**Oriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nedey-2026-ocwikidialects-wikipedia-dataset-rich-metadata/)
17. [**Syllable Structures Across Arabic Varieties**Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qaddoumi-2026-syllable-structures-across-arabic-varieties/)
18. [**AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026**Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/robinson-2026-amiya-shared-task-arabic-modeling/)
19. [**A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User Comments**Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lutgen-2026-subword-embedding-approach-variation-detection/)
20. [**Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification**Nathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mederake-2026-onomasiological-sense-alignment-across-dialect/)
21. [**Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification Models**Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekky-2026-curriculum-learning-pseudo-labeling-improve/)
22. [**Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation**Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mutal-2026-aladdin-fti-amiya-three-wishes/)
23. [**Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian Languages**Mihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panchal-2026-indic-tunedlens-interpreting-multilingual-models/)
24. [**Regional Variation in the Performance of ASR Models on Croatian and Serbian**Tanja Samardžić, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samardzic-2026-regional-variation-performance-asr-models/)
25. [**Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its Effects**Xabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel, Marcos Garcia*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/urbieta-2026-language-mixture-develop-accurate-galician/)

[See all 27 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/works/)

Venues, publishers and identifiers from OpenAlex (2026-10-14) and the ACL Anthology; yearly proceedings are counted as one series.