--- title: "VarDial 2020 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "VarDial 2020 — accepted papers: 2 papers in the Elamur Research library (Barcelona, Spain (Online)), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2020/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2020/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [VarDial](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/) / 2020 # VarDial 2020 — accepted papers VarDial 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 27 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. 📍 Barcelona, Spain (Online) · 🗓 December 2020 [**27** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2020/#works) · [**8** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2020/#works) ## All accepted papers (27) The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Four-Dialect Treebank for Occitan: Building Process and Parsing Experiments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.13/)**Aleksandra Miletic, Myriam Bras, Marianne Vergez-Couret et al. 2. **[A Report on the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2020 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.1/)**Mihaela Gaman, Dirk Hovy, Radu Tudor Ionescu et al. 3. **[A Tokenization System for the Kurdish Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.11/)**Sina Ahmadi 4. **[A dual-encoding system for dialect classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.20/)**Petru Rebeja, Dan Cristea 5. **[ASR for Non-standardised Languages with Dialectal Variation: the case of Swiss German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.2/)**Iuliia Nigmatulina, Tannon Kew, Tanja Samardzic 6. **[Applying Multilingual and Monolingual Transformer-Based Models for Dialect Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.18/)**Cristian Popa, Vlad Ștefănescu 7. **[Bilingual Lexicon Induction across Orthographically-distinct Under-Resourced Dravidian Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.6/)**Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Navaneethan Rajasekaran, Mihael Arcan et al. 8. **[Building a Corpus for the Zaza–Gorani Language Family ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.7/)**Sina Ahmadi 9. **[Challenges in Neural Language Identification: NRC at VarDial 2020 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.26/)**Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Cyril Goutte 10. **[Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gasser-2020-character-alignment-morphologically-complex-translation/)**Michael Gasser, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum, Nazareth Amlesom Kifle*our summary* 11. **[Combining Deep Learning and String Kernels for the Localization of Swiss German Tweets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.23/)**Mihaela Gaman, Radu Tudor Ionescu 12. **[Dealing with dialectal variation in the construction of the Basque historical corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.8/)**Ainara Estarrona, Izaskun Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare et al. 13. **[Dialect Identification under Domain Shift: Experiments with Discriminating Romanian and Moldavian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.17/)**Çağrı Çöltekin 14. **[Discriminating between standard Romanian and Moldavian tweets using filtered character ngrams ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.25/)**Andrea Ceolin, Hong Zhang 15. **[Experiments in Language Variety Geolocation and Dialect Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.21/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén 16. **[Exploring the Power of Romanian BERT for Dialect Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.22/)**George-Eduard Zaharia, Andrei-Marius Avram, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel et al. 17. **[Geolocation of Tweets with a BiLSTM Regression Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.27/)**Piyush Mishra 18. **[HeLju@VarDial 2020: Social Media Variety Geolocation with BERT Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.19/)**Yves Scherrer, Nikola Ljubešić 19. **[LSDC - A comprehensive dataset for Low Saxon Dialect Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.3/)**Janine Siewert, Yves Scherrer, Martijn Wieling et al. 20. **[Machine-oriented NMT Adaptation for Zero-shot NLP tasks: Comparing the Usefulness of Close and Distant Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.4/)**Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi 21. **[Neural Machine Translation for translating into Croatian and Serbian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.10/)**Maja Popović, Alberto Poncelas, Marija Brkic et al. 22. **[Recycling and Comparing Morphological Annotation Models for Armenian Diachronic-Variational Corpus Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.9/)**Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Victoria Khurshudyan, Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos 23. **[Rediscovering the Slavic Continuum in Representations Emerging from Neural Models of Spoken Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.12/)**Badr M. Abdullah, Jacek Kudera, Tania Avgustinova et al. 24. **[Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hwang-2020-augmenting-lexical-resources-slang-african/)**Alyssa Hwang, William R. Frey, Kathleen McKeown*our summary* 25. **[Uralic Language Identification (ULI) 2020 shared task dataset and the Wanca 2017 corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.vardial-1.16/)**Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Niko Partanen et al. [See all 27 papers in VarDial 2020 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2020/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (2) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hwang-2020-augmenting-lexical-resources-slang-african/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Alyssa Hwang, William R. Frey, Kathleen McKeown*2020 · 8 citations* 2. [**Character Alignment in Morphologically Complex Translation Sets for Related Languages**Michael Gasser, Binyam Ephrem Seyoum, Nazareth Amlesom Kifle*2020*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gasser-2020-character-alignment-morphologically-complex-translation/) ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [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 (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. [🧑‍🔬**Alyssa Hwang**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alyssa-hwang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kathleen McKeown**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathleen-mckeown/) · [🧑‍🔬**Binyam Ephrem Seyoum**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/binyam-ephrem-seyoum/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michael Gasser**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-gasser/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous VarDial 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2019/) - [next → VarDial 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2021/) - [↑ back to VarDial](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)