Monday, April 3, 2017 |
| 9:30–9:40 | Opening |
| 09:40–10:00 | Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017
Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubešić, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Ali, Jörg Tiedemann, Yves Scherrer and Noëmi Aepli |
| 10:00–10:30 | Dialectometric analysis of language variation in Twitter
Gonzalo Donoso and David Sanchez |
| 10:30–11:00 | Computational analysis of Gondi dialects
Taraka Rama, Çağrı Çöltekin and Pavel Sofroniev |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:00 | Investigating Diatopic Variation in a Historical Corpus
Stefanie Dipper and Sandra Waldenberger |
| 12.00–13.00 | Invited talk - Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) |
| | Author Profiling at PAN: from Age and Gender Identification to Language Variety Identification (invited talk)
Paolo Rosso |
| 13.00–14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30–16.00 | Poster Session |
| | The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between Amharic and Tigrigna Varieties
Tekabe Legesse Feleke |
| | Why Catalan-Spanish Neural Machine Translation? Analysis, comparison and combination with standard Rule and Phrase-based technologies
Marta R. Costa-jussà |
| | Kurdish Interdialect Machine Translation
Hossein Hassani |
| | Twitter Language Identification Of Similar Languages And Dialects Without Ground Truth
Jennifer Williams and Charlie Dagli |
| | Multi-source morphosyntactic tagging for spoken Rusyn
Yves Scherrer and Achim Rabus |
| | Identifying dialects with textual and acoustic cues
Abualsoud Hanani, Aziz Qaroush and Stephen Taylor |
| | Evaluating HeLI with Non-Linear Mappings
Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén and Heidi Jauhiainen |
| | A Perplexity-Based Method for Similar Languages Discrimination
Pablo Gamallo, Jose Ramom Pichel and Iñaki Alegria |
| | Improving the Character Ngram Model for the DSL Task with BM25 Weighting and Less Frequently Used Feature Sets
Yves Bestgen |
| | Discriminating between Similar Languages with Word-level Convolutional Neural Networks
Marcelo Criscuolo and Sandra Maria Aluisio |
| | Cross-lingual dependency parsing for closely related languages - Helsinki’s submission to VarDial 2017
Jörg Tiedemann |
| | Discriminating between Similar Languages Using a Combination of Typed and Untyped Character N-grams and Words
Helena Gomez, Ilia Markov, Jorge Baptista, Grigori Sidorov and David Pinto |
| | Tübingen system in VarDial 2017 shared task: experiments with language identification and cross-lingual parsing
Çağrı Çöltekin and Taraka Rama |
| | When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages
Maria Medvedeva, Martin Kroon and Barbara Plank |
| | German Dialect Identification in Interview Transcriptions
Shervin Malmasi and Marcos Zampieri |
| | CLUZH at VarDial GDI 2017: Testing a Variety of Machine Learning Tools for the Classification of Swiss German Dialects
Simon Clematide and Peter Makarov |
| | Arabic Dialect Identification Using iVectors and ASR Transcripts
Shervin Malmasi and Marcos Zampieri |
| | Discriminating between Similar Languages using Weighted Subword Features
Adrien Barbaresi |
| 16.00–16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30–17:00 | Exploring Lexical and Syntactic Features for Language Variety Identification
Chris van der Lee and Antal van den Bosch |
| 17:00–17:30 | Learning to Identify Arabic and German Dialects using Multiple Kernels
Radu Tudor Ionescu and Andrei Butnaru |
| 17:30–18:00 | Slavic Forest, Norwegian Wood
Rudolf Rosa, Daniel Zeman, David Mareček and Zdeněk Žabokrtský |
| 18.00 | Closing remarks |