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# VarDial 2026 — accepted papers

VarDial 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 32 papers of it; our library holds 18 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, [Morocco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/morocco/) · 🗓 March 2026

[**32** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**18** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2026/#works) · [**12** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2026/#works)

## All accepted papers (32)

The most cited first; 18 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.12/)**Akriti Dhasmana, Aarohi Srivastava, David Chiang*2 citations*
2. **[A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamad-2026-closed-track-system-palestinian-arabic/)**Khaleel Hamad, Ahmad Al-Najjar*our summary*
3. **[A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User Comments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lutgen-2026-subword-embedding-approach-variation-detection/)**Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke*our summary*
4. **[AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/robinson-2026-amiya-shared-task-arabic-modeling/)**Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban et al.*our summary*
5. **[Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mutal-2026-aladdin-fti-amiya-three-wishes/)**Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen et al.*our summary*
6. **[Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabdullah-2026-ara-hope-human-centric-post/)**Abdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han, Chenghua Lin*our summary*
7. **[Bridging Dialectal Variation: A Phonetic Transcription Tool for Tamil ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.19/)**Ahrane Mahaganapathy, Sumirtha Karunakaran, Kavitha Navakulan et al.
8. **[Building ASR Resources for the Hutsul Dialect of Ukrainian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.15/)**Roman Kyslyi, Artem Orlovskyi, Pavlo Khomenko et al.
9. **[Crowdsourcing Piedmontese to Test LLMs on Non-Standard Orthography](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vico-2026-crowdsourcing-piedmontese-test-llms-non/)**Gianluca Vico, Jindřich Libovický*our summary*
10. **[Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekky-2026-curriculum-learning-pseudo-labeling-improve/)**Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan et al.*our summary*
11. **[Do Large Language Models Adapt to Language Variation across Socioeconomic Status? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.26/)**Elisa Bassignana, Mike Zhang, Dirk Hovy et al.
12. **[Effects of Speaker Bias in Dialect Identification and Automatic Transcription with Self-Supervised Speech Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.3/)**Olli Kuparinen
13. **[Evaluation Framework for Transfer Learning between Closely Related Lects: A Case Study of Lemko ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.25/)**Ilia Afanasev
14. **[Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsoukala-2026-extending-asr-evaluation-resources-modern/)**Chara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti et al.*our summary*
15. **[Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.2/)**Deniz Kaya Dilsiz, Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi
16. **[From FusHa to Folk: Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Arabic Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.16/)**Abdulmuizz Khalak, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos Spanakis
17. **[German-English Code-Switching in Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.7/)**Firat Cem Aksüt, Stefan Hillmann, Pia Knoeferle et al.
18. **[How Should We Model the Probability of a Language? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.18/)**Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clérice et al.
19. **[Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-Experts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maheshwari-2026-improving-dialect-robustness-large-language/)**Sanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu et al.*our summary*
20. **[Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panchal-2026-indic-tunedlens-interpreting-multilingual-models/)**Mihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta et al.*our summary*
21. **[Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its Effects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/urbieta-2026-language-mixture-develop-accurate-galician/)**Xabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel, Marcos Garcia*our summary*
22. **[MBZUAI at AMIYA Shared Task 2026: Adapting Open-Source LLMs for Dialectal Arabic ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.vardial-1.31/)**Rana Gaber, Yara Allam, Serag Amin et al.
23. **[Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR Decoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alali-2026-maastricht-university-amiya-adapting-llms/)**Abdulhai Alali, Abderrahmane Issam*our summary*
24. **[NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gollapalli-2026-nus-ids-amiya-vardial-2026/)**Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du et al.*our summary*
25. **[OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nedey-2026-ocwikidialects-wikipedia-dataset-rich-metadata/)**Oriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice et al.*our summary*

[See all 32 papers in VarDial 2026 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2026/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (18)

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

1. **[Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsoukala-2026-extending-asr-evaluation-resources-modern/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Chara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti, et al.*2026 · 4 citations*
2. **[Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabdullah-2026-ara-hope-human-centric-post/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Abdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han, Chenghua Lin*2026 · 2 citations*
3. **[NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gollapalli-2026-nus-ids-amiya-vardial-2026/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
4. **[A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamad-2026-closed-track-system-palestinian-arabic/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Khaleel Hamad, Ahmad Al-Najjar*2026 · 1 citation*
5. **[Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-Experts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maheshwari-2026-improving-dialect-robustness-large-language/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Sanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
6. **[OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nedey-2026-ocwikidialects-wikipedia-dataset-rich-metadata/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Oriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
7. **[Syllable Structures Across Arabic Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qaddoumi-2026-syllable-structures-across-arabic-varieties/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
8. **[AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/robinson-2026-amiya-shared-task-arabic-modeling/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
9. **[Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR Decoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alali-2026-maastricht-university-amiya-adapting-llms/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Abdulhai Alali, Abderrahmane Issam*2026*
10. **[SDNLP at AMIYA 2026: Syrian Arabic Dialect Modeling with LoRA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alkhder-2026-sdnlp-amiya-2026-syrian-arabic/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Hasan Alkhder, Mohammad Abboush*2026*
11. **[A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User Comments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lutgen-2026-subword-embedding-approach-variation-detection/) [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*2026*
12. **[Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mederake-2026-onomasiological-sense-alignment-across-dialect/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Nathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer, et al.*2026*
13. **[Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekky-2026-curriculum-learning-pseudo-labeling-improve/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan, et al.*2026*
14. **[Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mutal-2026-aladdin-fti-amiya-three-wishes/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen, et al.*2026*
15. **[Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panchal-2026-indic-tunedlens-interpreting-multilingual-models/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Mihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta, et al.*2026*
16. **[Regional Variation in the Performance of ASR Models on Croatian and Serbian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samardzic-2026-regional-variation-performance-asr-models/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Tanja Samardžić, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić*2026*
17. **[Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its Effects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/urbieta-2026-language-mixture-develop-accurate-galician/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Xabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel, Marcos Garcia*2026*
18. **[Crowdsourcing Piedmontese to Test LLMs on Non-Standard Orthography](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vico-2026-crowdsourcing-piedmontese-test-llms-non/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Gianluca Vico, Jindřich Libovický*2026*

## Top topics

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

[Semitic languages (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [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/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Mamta**2 works here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mamta/) · [🧑‍🔬**Antonios Anastasopoulos**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonios-anastasopoulos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Stella Markantonatou**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stella-markantonatou/) · [🧑‍🔬**Abdullah Alabdullah**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdullah-alabdullah/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chenghua Lin**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghua-lin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lifeng Han**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lifeng-han/) · [🧑‍🔬**Abdelrahim Qaddoumi**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahim-qaddoumi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Anjali Kantharuban**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anjali-kantharuban/) · [🧑‍🔬**Benoit Sagot**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-sagot/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ellen Broselow**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-broselow/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jordan Kodner**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordan-kodner/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kelly Marchisio**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kelly-marchisio/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Brigham Young University** Provo · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brigham-young-university/) · [🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Patna** Patna · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-patna/) · [🔬**Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique** Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-national-de-recherche-en-sciences-et-technologies-du-numerique/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Philipps University of Marburg** Marburg · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/philipps-university-of-marburg/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/) · [🎓**King's College London** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-s-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Luxembourg** Luxembourg · Luxembourg 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-luxembourg/) · [🎓**Universidade de Santiago de Compostela** Santiago de Compostela · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-de-santiago-de-compostela/)

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