The interplay between language similarity and script on a novel multi-layer Algerian dialect corpus (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have focused on cross-lingual transfer between languages with similar typology and languages of different scripts. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate Algerian user-generated comments with parallel annotations . they also investigate the effect of script vs. language similarity in cross-lingual transfer . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model fine-tunes multi-lingual models on Algerian language and scripts . it shows that script vs. language similarity is important for part-of-speech tagging and sentiment analysis . |
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