Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification over Space and Time (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | a paper examines the degree to which dialect classifiers remain stable over time . it finds that the models remain robust over time with a fixed decay rate . |
| Approach: | They construct a test set for 12 dialects of English that spans three years at monthly intervals with a fixed spatial distribution across 1,120 cities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can reveal linguistic variation over space and time. |
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