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# VarDial 2017 — accepted papers

VarDial 2017 is the 2017 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Valencia, Spain, April 2017 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 26 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.

📍 Valencia, [Spain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/spain/) · 🗓 April 2017

[**26** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2017/#works) · [**267** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2017/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2017-findings-vardial-evaluation-campaign/)**Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubešić et al.*144 citations · our summary*
2. **[Dialectometric analysis of language variation in Twitter ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1202/)**Gonzalo Donoso, David Sánchez*53 citations*
3. **[When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1219/)**Maria Medvedeva, Martin Kroon, Barbara Plank*48 citations*
4. **[Learning to Identify Arabic and German Dialects using Multiple Kernels ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1225/)**Radu Tudor Ionescu, Andrei Butnaru*40 citations*
5. **[Exploring Lexical and Syntactic Features for Language Variety Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1224/)**Chris van der Lee, Antal van den Bosch*33 citations*
6. **[Improving the Character Ngram Model for the DSL Task with BM25 Weighting and Less Frequently Used Feature Sets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1214/)**Yves Bestgen*33 citations*
7. **[A Perplexity-Based Method for Similar Languages Discrimination ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1213/)**Pablo Gamallo, Jose Ramom Pichel, Iñaki Alegria*31 citations*
8. **[Arabic Dialect Identification Using iVectors and ASR Transcripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1222/)**Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri*31 citations*
9. **[German Dialect Identification in Interview Transcriptions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1220/)**Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri*24 citations*
10. **[Twitter Language Identification Of Similar Languages And Dialects Without Ground Truth ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1209/)**Jennifer Williams, Charlie Dagli*20 citations*

## All accepted papers (26)

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

1. **[Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2017-findings-vardial-evaluation-campaign/)**Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubešić et al.*144 citations · our summary*
2. **[Dialectometric analysis of language variation in Twitter ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1202/)**Gonzalo Donoso, David Sánchez*53 citations*
3. **[When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1219/)**Maria Medvedeva, Martin Kroon, Barbara Plank*48 citations*
4. **[Learning to Identify Arabic and German Dialects using Multiple Kernels ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1225/)**Radu Tudor Ionescu, Andrei Butnaru*40 citations*
5. **[Exploring Lexical and Syntactic Features for Language Variety Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1224/)**Chris van der Lee, Antal van den Bosch*33 citations*
6. **[Improving the Character Ngram Model for the DSL Task with BM25 Weighting and Less Frequently Used Feature Sets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1214/)**Yves Bestgen*33 citations*
7. **[A Perplexity-Based Method for Similar Languages Discrimination ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1213/)**Pablo Gamallo, Jose Ramom Pichel, Iñaki Alegria*31 citations*
8. **[Arabic Dialect Identification Using iVectors and ASR Transcripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1222/)**Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri*31 citations*
9. **[German Dialect Identification in Interview Transcriptions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1220/)**Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri*24 citations*
10. **[Twitter Language Identification Of Similar Languages And Dialects Without Ground Truth ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1209/)**Jennifer Williams, Charlie Dagli*20 citations*
11. **[Tübingen system in VarDial 2017 shared task: experiments with language identification and cross-lingual parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1218/)**Çağrı Çöltekin, Taraka Rama*20 citations*
12. **[Why Catalan-Spanish Neural Machine Translation? Analysis, comparison and combination with standard Rule and Phrase-based technologies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1207/)**Marta R. Costa-jussà*19 citations*
13. **[Identifying dialects with textual and acoustic cues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1211/)**Abualsoud Hanani, Aziz Qaroush, Stephen Taylor*16 citations*
14. **[Kurdish Interdialect Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1208/)**Hossein Hassani*16 citations*
15. **[CLUZH at VarDial GDI 2017: Testing a Variety of Machine Learning Tools for the Classification of Swiss German Dialects ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1221/)**Simon Clematide, Peter Makarov*13 citations*
16. **[Discriminating between Similar Languages Using a Combination of Typed and Untyped Character N-grams and Words ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1217/)**Helena Gomez, Ilia Markov, Jorge Baptista et al.*13 citations*
17. **[Discriminating between Similar Languages using Weighted Subword Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1223/)**Adrien Barbaresi*11 citations*
18. **[Discriminating between Similar Languages with Word-level Convolutional Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1215/)**Marcelo Criscuolo, Sandra Maria Aluísio*11 citations*
19. **[Cross-lingual dependency parsing for closely related languages - Helsinki's submission to VarDial 2017 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1216/)**Jörg Tiedemann*10 citations*
20. **[Evaluating HeLI with Non-Linear Mappings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1212/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén, Heidi Jauhiainen*9 citations*
21. **[Slavic Forest, Norwegian Wood ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1226/)**Rudolf Rosa, Daniel Zeman, David Mareček et al.*8 citations*
22. **[Computational analysis of Gondi dialects ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1203/)**Taraka Rama, Çağrı Çöltekin, Pavel Sofroniev*4 citations*
23. **[Multi-source morphosyntactic tagging for spoken Rusyn ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1210/)**Yves Scherrer, Achim Rabus*4 citations*
24. **[The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between Amharic and Tigrigna Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feleke-2017-similarity-mutual-intelligibility-between-amharic/)**Tekabe Legesse Feleke*4 citations · our summary*
25. **[Investigating Diatopic Variation in a Historical Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-1204/)**Stefanie Dipper, Sandra Waldenberger*2 citations*

[See all 26 papers in VarDial 2017 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2017/papers/)

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

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

1. **[Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2017-findings-vardial-evaluation-campaign/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubešić, et al.*2017 · 261 citations*
2. **[The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between Amharic and Tigrigna Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feleke-2017-similarity-mutual-intelligibility-between-amharic/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Tekabe Legesse Feleke*2017 · 6 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [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 (1)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Ahmed Ali**1 work here · 261 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-ali/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jörg Tiedemann**1 work here · 261 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorg-tiedemann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marcos Zampieri**1 work here · 261 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-zampieri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nikola Ljubešić**1 work here · 261 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikola-ljubesic/) · [🧑‍🔬**Preslav Nakov**1 work here · 261 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shervin Malmasi**1 work here · 261 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shervin-malmasi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yves Scherrer**1 work here · 261 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-scherrer/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🎓**University of Verona** Verona · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-verona/) · [🎓**University of Helsinki** Helsinki · Finland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of Cologne** Cologne · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cologne/) · [🎓**University of Zagreb** Zagreb · Croatia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zagreb/) · [🎓**University of Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) · [🔬**Jožef Stefan Institute** Ljubljana · Slovenia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/jozef-stefan-institute/) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**Macquarie University** Sydney · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/macquarie-university/)

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