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# VarDial 2016 — accepted papers

VarDial 2016 is the 2016 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Osaka, Japan, December 2016 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 31 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.

📍 Osaka, [Japan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/japan/) · 🗓 December 2016

[**31** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2016/#works) · [**45** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2016/#works)

## All accepted papers (31)

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

1. **[A Character-level Convolutional Neural Network for Distinguishing Similar Languages and Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/belinkov-2016-character-level-convolutional-neural-network/)**Yonatan Belinkov, James Glass*our summary*
2. **[ASIREM Participation at the Discriminating Similar Languages Shared Task 2016 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4821/)**Wafia Adouane, Nasredine Semmar, Richard Johansson
3. **[Advances in Ngram-based Discrimination of Similar Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4823/)**Cyril Goutte, Serge Léger
4. **[An Unsupervised Morphological Criterion for Discriminating Similar Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4827/)**Adrien Barbaresi
5. **[Arabic Dialect Identification in Speech Transcripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malmasi-2016-arabic-dialect-identification-speech-transcripts/)**Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri*our summary*
6. **[Arabic Language WEKA-Based Dialect Classifier for Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition Transcripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshutayri-2016-arabic-language-weka-based-dialect/)**Areej Alshutayri, Eric Atwell, Abdulrahman Alosaimy et al.*our summary*
7. **[Automatic Detection of Arabicized Berber and Arabic Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adouane-2016-automatic-detection-arabicized-berber-arabic/)**Wafia Adouane, Nasredine Semmar, Richard Johansson et al.*our summary*
8. **[Automatic Verification and Augmentation of Multilingual Lexicons](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aminian-2016-automatic-verification-augmentation-multilingual-lexicons/)**Maryam Aminian, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Mona Diab*our summary*
9. **[Byte-based Language Identification with Deep Convolutional Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4816/)**Johannes Bjerva
10. **[Classifying ASR Transcriptions According to Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hanani-2016-classifying-asr-transcriptions-according-arabic/)**Abualsoud Hanani, Aziz Qaroush, Stephen Taylor*our summary*
11. **[Comparing Two Basic Methods for Discriminating Between Similar Languages and Varieties ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4822/)**Pablo Gamallo, Iñaki Alegria, José Ramom Pichel et al.
12. **[DSL Shared Task 2016: Perfect Is The Enemy of Good Language Discrimination Through Expectation–Maximization and Chunk-based Language Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4815/)**Ondřej Herman, Vít Suchomel, Vít Baisa et al.
13. **[Discriminating Similar Languages with Linear SVMs and Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4802/)**Çağrı Çöltekin, Taraka Rama
14. **[Discriminating between Similar Languages and Arabic Dialect Identification: A Report on the Third DSL Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malmasi-2016-discriminating-between-similar-languages/)**Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri, Nikola Ljubešić et al.*our summary*
15. **[Discrimination between Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects using CNN- and LSTM-based Deep Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guggilla-2016-discrimination-between-similar-languages-varieties/)**Chinnappa Guggilla*our summary*
16. **[Enlarging Scarce In-domain English-Croatian Corpus for SMT of MOOCs Using Serbian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4813/)**Maja Popović, Kostadin Cholakov, Valia Kordoni et al.
17. **[Faster Decoding for Subword Level Phrase-based SMT between Related Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4811/)**Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
18. **[HeLI, a Word-Based Backoff Method for Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4820/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén, Heidi Jauhiainen
19. **[How Many Languages Can a Language Model Model? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4808/)**Robert Östling
20. **[LSTM Autoencoders for Dialect Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4803/)**Taraka Rama, Çağrı Çöltekin
21. **[Language Related Issues for Machine Translation between Closely Related South Slavic Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4806/)**Maja Popović, Mihael Arčan, Filip Klubička
22. **[Language and Dialect Discrimination Using Compression-Inspired Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4825/)**Paul McNamee
23. **[N-gram and Neural Language Models for Discriminating Similar Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4831/)**Andre Cianflone, Leila Kosseim
24. **[Processing Dialectal Arabic: Exploiting Variability and Similarity to Overcome Challenges and Discover Opportunities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diab-2016-processing-dialectal-arabic-exploiting-variability/)**Mona Diab*our summary*
25. **[QCRI @ DSL 2016: Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification Using Textual Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eldesouki-2016-qcri-dsl-2016-spoken-arabic/)**Mohamed Eldesouki, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad et al.*our summary*

[See all 31 papers in VarDial 2016 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2016/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

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

1. **[Arabic Language WEKA-Based Dialect Classifier for Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition Transcripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshutayri-2016-arabic-language-weka-based-dialect/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Areej Alshutayri, Eric Atwell, Abdulrahman Alosaimy, et al.*2016 · 23 citations*
2. **[A Character-level Convolutional Neural Network for Distinguishing Similar Languages and Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/belinkov-2016-character-level-convolutional-neural-network/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Yonatan Belinkov, James Glass*2016 · 22 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/)

## Fields

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

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Abdulrahman Alosaimy**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulrahman-alosaimy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Areej Alshutayri**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/areej-alshutayri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eric Atwell**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/) · [🧑‍🔬**Janet Watson**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/janet-watson/) · [🧑‍🔬**James Glass**1 work here · 22 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-glass/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yonatan Belinkov**1 work here · 22 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yonatan-belinkov/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Leeds** Leeds · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-leeds/) · [🎓**King Abdulaziz University** Jeddah · Saudi Arabia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-abdulaziz-university/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**University of Salford** Salford · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-salford/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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