Monday, December 12, 2016 |
| 9:00–9:10 | Opening |
| 9.10–9.30 | Discriminating between Similar Languages and Arabic Dialect Identification: A Report on the Third DSL Shared Task
Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri, Nikola Ljubešić, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Ali and Jörg Tiedemann |
| 9.30–10.00 | Discriminating Similar Languages with Linear SVMs and Neural Networks
Çağrı Çöltekin and Taraka Rama |
| 10.00–10.30 | LSTM Autoencoders for Dialect Analysis
Taraka Rama and Çağrı Çöltekin |
| 10.30–11.00 | The GW/LT3 VarDial 2016 Shared Task System for Dialects and Similar Languages Detection
Ayah Zirikly, Bart Desmet and Mona Diab |
| 11.00–12.00 | Invited talk 1 |
| | Processing Dialectal Arabic: Exploiting Variability and Similarity to Overcome Challenges and Discover Opportunities
Mona Diab |
| 12.00–13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45–14.15 | Language Related Issues for Machine Translation between Closely Related South Slavic Languages
Maja Popović, Mihael Arcan and Filip Klubička |
| 14.15–14.45 | Romanized Berber and Romanized Arabic Automatic Language Identification Using Machine Learning
Wafia Adouane, Nasredine Semmar and Richard Johansson |
| 14.45–15.45 | Invited talk 2 |
| | How Many Languages Can a Language Model Model?
Robert Östling |
| 15.45–17.00 | Poster Session |
| | Automatic Detection of Arabicized Berber and Arabic Varieties
Wafia Adouane, Nasredine Semmar, Richard Johansson and Victoria Bobicev |
| | Automatic Verification and Augmentation of Multilingual Lexicons
Maryam Aminian, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny and Mona Diab |
| | Faster Decoding for Subword Level Phrase-based SMT between Related Languages
Anoop Kunchukuttan and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| | Subdialectal Differences in Sorani Kurdish
Shervin Malmasi |
| | Enlarging Scarce In-domain English-Croatian Corpus for SMT of MOOCs Using Serbian
Maja Popović, Kostadin Cholakov, Valia Kordoni and Nikola Ljubešić |
| | Arabic Dialect Identification in Speech Transcripts
Shervin Malmasi and Marcos Zampieri |
| | DSL Shared Task 2016: Perfect Is The Enemy of Good Language Discrimination Through Expectation–Maximization and Chunk-based Language Model
Ondřej Herman, Vit Suchomel, Vít Baisa and Pavel Rychlý |
| | Byte-based Language Identification with Deep Convolutional Networks
Johannes Bjerva |
| | Classifying ASR Transcriptions According to Arabic Dialect
Abualsoud Hanani, Aziz Qaroush and Stephen Taylor |
| | UnibucKernel: An Approach for Arabic Dialect Identification Based on Multiple String Kernels
Radu Tudor Ionescu and Marius Popescu |
| | A Character-level Convolutional Neural Network for Distinguishing Similar Languages and Dialects
Yonatan Belinkov and James Glass |
| | HeLI, a Word-Based Backoff Method for Language Identification
Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén and Heidi Jauhiainen |
| | ASIREM Participation at the Discriminating Similar Languages Shared Task 2016
Wafia Adouane, Nasredine Semmar and Richard Johansson |
| | Comparing Two Basic Methods for Discriminating Between Similar Languages and Varieties
Pablo Gamallo, Iñaki Alegria, José Ramom Pichel and Manex Agirrezabal |
| | Advances in Ngram-based Discrimination of Similar Languages
Cyril Goutte and Serge Léger |
| | Discrimination between Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects using CNN- and LSTM-based Deep Neural Networks
Chinnappa Guggilla |
| | Language and Dialect Discrimination Using Compression-Inspired Language Models
Paul McNamee |
| | Arabic Language WEKA-Based Dialect Classifier for Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition Transcripts
Areej Alshutayri, Eric Atwell, Abdulrahman Alosaimy, James Dickins, Michael Ingleby and Janet Watson |
| | An Unsupervised Morphological Criterion for Discriminating Similar Languages
Adrien Barbaresi |
| | QCRI @ DSL 2016: Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification Using Textual Features
Mohamed Eldesouki, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad and Kareem Darwish |
| | Tuning Bayes Baseline for Dialect Detection
Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya and Liliana Mamani Sanchez |
| | Vanilla Classifiers for Distinguishing between Similar Languages
Sergiu Nisioi, Alina Maria Ciobanu and Liviu P. Dinu |
| | N-gram and Neural Language Models for Discriminating Similar Languages
Andre Cianflone and Leila Kosseim |