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# VarDial 2019 — accepted papers

VarDial 2019 is the 2019 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2019 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 25 papers of it; our library holds 5 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Ann Arbor, Michigan · 🗓 June 2019

[**25** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**5** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2019/#works) · [**56** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2019/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[A Report on the Third VarDial Evaluation Campaign ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1401/)**Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Yves Scherrer et al.*31 citations*
2. **[Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1409/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola et al.*26 citations*
3. **[Language Discrimination and Transfer Learning for Similar Languages: Experiments with Feature Combinations and Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1406/)**Nianheng Wu, Eric DeMattos, Kwok Him So et al.*24 citations*
4. **[Improving Cuneiform Language Identification with BERT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1402/)**Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Cyril Goutte, Serge Léger*18 citations*
5. **[Cross-lingual Annotation Projection Is Effective for Neural Part-of-Speech Tagging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1425/)**Matthias Huck, Diana Dutka, Alexander Fraser*17 citations*
6. **[Discriminating between Mandarin Chinese and Swiss-German varieties using adaptive language models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1419/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén, Heidi Jauhiainen*12 citations*
7. **[Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dunn-2019-modeling-global-syntactic-variation-english/)**Jonathan Dunn*11 citations · our summary*
8. **[Joint Approach to Deromanization of Code-mixed Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1403/)**Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Grzegorz Kondrak*10 citations*
9. **[Investigating Machine Learning Methods for Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doostmohammadi-2019-investigating-machine-learning-methods-language/)**Ehsan Doostmohammadi, Minoo Nassajian*9 citations · our summary*
10. **[Variation between Different Discourse Types: Literate vs. Oral ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1407/)**Katrin Ortmann, Stefanie Dipper*8 citations*

## All accepted papers (25)

The most cited first; 5 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Report on the Third VarDial Evaluation Campaign ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1401/)**Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Yves Scherrer et al.*31 citations*
2. **[Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1409/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola et al.*26 citations*
3. **[Language Discrimination and Transfer Learning for Similar Languages: Experiments with Feature Combinations and Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1406/)**Nianheng Wu, Eric DeMattos, Kwok Him So et al.*24 citations*
4. **[Improving Cuneiform Language Identification with BERT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1402/)**Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Cyril Goutte, Serge Léger*18 citations*
5. **[Cross-lingual Annotation Projection Is Effective for Neural Part-of-Speech Tagging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1425/)**Matthias Huck, Diana Dutka, Alexander Fraser*17 citations*
6. **[Discriminating between Mandarin Chinese and Swiss-German varieties using adaptive language models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1419/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén, Heidi Jauhiainen*12 citations*
7. **[Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dunn-2019-modeling-global-syntactic-variation-english/)**Jonathan Dunn*11 citations · our summary*
8. **[Joint Approach to Deromanization of Code-mixed Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1403/)**Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Grzegorz Kondrak*10 citations*
9. **[Investigating Machine Learning Methods for Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doostmohammadi-2019-investigating-machine-learning-methods-language/)**Ehsan Doostmohammadi, Minoo Nassajian*9 citations · our summary*
10. **[Variation between Different Discourse Types: Literate vs. Oral ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1407/)**Katrin Ortmann, Stefanie Dipper*8 citations*
11. **[Leveraging Pretrained Word Embeddings for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Code Switching Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alghamdi-2019-leveraging-pretrained-word-embeddings-part/)**Fahad AlGhamdi, Mona Diab*7 citations · our summary*
12. **[Ensemble Methods to Distinguish Mainland and Taiwan Chinese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1417/)**Hai Hu, Wen Li, He Zhou et al.*5 citations*
13. **[Experiments in Cuneiform Language Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paetzold-2019-experiments-cuneiform-language-identification/)**Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, Marcos Zampieri*5 citations · our summary*
14. **[Toward a deep dialectological representation of Indo-Aryan ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1411/)**Chundra Cathcart*5 citations*
15. **[Neural and Linear Pipeline Approaches to Cross-lingual Morphological Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1416/)**Çağrı Çöltekin, Jeremy Barnes*4 citations*
16. **[Comparing Pipelined and Integrated Approaches to Dialectal Arabic Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shapiro-2019-comparing-pipelined-integrated-approaches-dialectal/)**Pamela Shapiro, Kevin Duh*3 citations · our summary*
17. **[Naive Bayes and BiLSTM Ensemble for Discriminating between Mainland and Taiwan Variation of Mandarin Chinese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1412/)**Li Yang, Yang Xiang*3 citations*
18. **[Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Rakhine (Arakanese) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1408/)**Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Khin Mar Soe*3 citations*
19. **[SC-UPB at the VarDial 2019 Evaluation Campaign: Moldavian vs. Romanian Cross-Dialect Topic Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1418/)**Cristian Onose, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Stefan Trausan-Matu*3 citations*
20. **[BAM: A combination of deep and shallow models for German Dialect Identification. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1413/)**Andrei M. Butnaru*2 citations*
21. **[DTeam @ VarDial 2019: Ensemble based on skip-gram and triplet loss neural networks for Moldavian vs. Romanian cross-dialect topic identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1422/)**Diana Tudoreanu*2 citations*
22. **[TwistBytes - Identification of Cuneiform Languages and German Dialects at VarDial 2019 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1421/)**Fernando Benites, Pius von Däniken, Mark Cieliebak*2 citations*
23. **[Initial Experiments In Cross-Lingual Morphological Analysis Using Morpheme Segmentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1415/)**Vladislav Mikhailov, Lorenzo Tosi, Anastasia Khorosheva et al.*1 citation*
24. **[Char-RNN for Word Stress Detection in East Slavic Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1404/)**Ekaterina Chernyak, Maria Ponomareva, Kirill Milintsevich
25. **[The R2I_LIS Team Proposes Majority Vote for VarDial's MRC Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1414/)**Adrian-Gabriel Chifu

## Papers with our summary in our library (5)

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

1. [**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/)
2. **[Leveraging Pretrained Word Embeddings for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Code Switching Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alghamdi-2019-leveraging-pretrained-word-embeddings-part/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Fahad AlGhamdi, Mona Diab*2019 · 11 citations*
3. **[Investigating Machine Learning Methods for Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doostmohammadi-2019-investigating-machine-learning-methods-language/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Ehsan Doostmohammadi, Minoo Nassajian*2019 · 11 citations*
4. **[Experiments in Cuneiform Language Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paetzold-2019-experiments-cuneiform-language-identification/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, Marcos Zampieri*2019 · 6 citations*
5. **[Comparing Pipelined and Integrated Approaches to Dialectal Arabic Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shapiro-2019-comparing-pipelined-integrated-approaches-dialectal/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Pamela Shapiro, Kevin Duh*2019 · 5 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Akkadian and cuneiform NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (5)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Jonathan Dunn**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-dunn/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fahad AlGhamdi**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahad-alghamdi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Minoo Nassajian**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minoo-nassajian/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mona Diab**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mona-diab/) · [🧑‍🔬**Gustavo Paetzold**1 work here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gustavo-paetzold/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marcos Zampieri**1 work here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-zampieri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kevin Duh**1 work here · 5 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pamela Shapiro**1 work here · 5 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pamela-shapiro/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🎓**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/) · [🎓**Sharif University of Technology** Tehran · Iran 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sharif-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**George Washington University** Washington · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/george-washington-university/)

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

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