--- title: "VarDial 2025 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "VarDial 2025 — accepted papers: 4 papers in the Elamur Research library (Abu Dhabi, UAE), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2025/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2025/) [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/) / 2025 # VarDial 2025 — accepted papers VarDial 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 17 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE · 🗓 January 2025 [**17** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2025/#works) · [**18** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2025/#works) ## All accepted papers (17) The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[Adapting Whisper for Regional Dialects: Enhancing Public Services for Vulnerable Populations in the United Kingdom ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.4/)**Melissa Torgbi, Andrew Clayman, Jordan J. Speight et al. 2. **[Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blaschke-2025-add-noise-tasks-or-layers/)**Verena Blaschke, Felicia Körner, Barbara Plank*our summary* 3. **[CUFE@VarDial 2025 NorSID: Multilingual BERT for Norwegian Dialect Identification and Intent Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.17/)**Michael Ibrahim 4. **[Common Ground, Diverse Roots: The Difficulty of Classifying Common Examples in Spanish Varieties ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.13/)**Javier A. Lopetegui, Arij Riabi, Djamé Seddah 5. **[Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2025: The NorSID Shared Task on Norwegian Slot, Intent and Dialect Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.1/)**Yves Scherrer, Rob van der Goot, Petter Mæhlum 6. **[HiTZ at VarDial 2025 NorSID: Overcoming Data Scarcity with Language Transfer and Automatic Data Annotation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.16/)**Jaione Bengoetxea, Mikel Zubillaga, Ekhi Azurmendi et al. 7. **[Improving Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection with Auxiliary Tasks: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Case Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.10/)**Xaver Maria Krückl, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank 8. **[Information Theory and Linguistic Variation: A Study of Brazilian and European Portuguese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.2/)**Diego Alves 9. **[LTG at VarDial 2025 NorSID: More and Better Training Data for Slot and Intent Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.15/)**Marthe Midtgaard, Petter Mæhlum, Yves Scherrer 10. **[Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alam-2025-large-language-models-as-normalizer/)**Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos*our summary* 11. **[Learning Cross-Dialectal Morphophonology with Syllable Structure Constraints ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.12/)**Salam Khalifa, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner et al. 12. **[Leveraging Open-Source Large Language Models for Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.3/)**Yee Man Ng, Ilia Markov 13. **[Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish Using Real-Life Variation Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lutgen-2025-neural-text-normalization-luxembourgish-real/)**Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke et al.*our summary* 14. **[Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coats-2025-regional-distribution-el-l-merger/)**Steven Coats, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes*our summary* 15. **[Retrieval of Parallelizable Texts Across Church Slavic Variants ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.8/)**Piroska Lendvai, Uwe Reichel, Anna Jouravel et al. 16. **[Testing the Boundaries of LLMs: Dialectal and Language-Variety Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.6/)**Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos 17. **[Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vardial-1.7/)**Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Christoph Purschke ## Papers with our summary in our library (4) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish Using Real-Life Variation Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lutgen-2025-neural-text-normalization-luxembourgish-real/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke, et al.*2025 · 10 citations* 2. **[Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alam-2025-large-language-models-as-normalizer/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos*2025 · 4 citations* 3. **[Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blaschke-2025-add-noise-tasks-or-layers/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Verena Blaschke, Felicia Körner, Barbara Plank*2025 · 3 citations* 4. **[Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coats-2025-regional-distribution-el-l-merger/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Steven Coats, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes*2025 · 1 citation* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (4)](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. [🧑‍🔬**Barbara Plank**2 works here · 13 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-plank/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alistair Plum**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alistair-plum/) · [🧑‍🔬**Anne-Marie Lutgen**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anne-marie-lutgen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christoph Purschke**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-purschke/) · [🧑‍🔬**Antonios Anastasopoulos**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonios-anastasopoulos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Felicia Körner**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/felicia-korner/) · [🧑‍🔬**Verena Blaschke**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/verena-blaschke/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steven Coats**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-coats/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**Munich Center for Machine Learning** Munich · Germany 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/munich-center-for-machine-learning/) · [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · [🎓**University of Luxembourg** Luxembourg · Luxembourg 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-luxembourg/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous VarDial 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2024/) - [next → VarDial 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2026/) - [↑ back to VarDial](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)