Creating dialect sub-corpora by clustering: a case in Japanese for an adaptive method (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a mixed corpus composed of different dialects is sufficiently resourced to cluster them into dialects. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline to derive clusters of dialects from a mixed corpus when their standard counterpart is sufficiently resourced. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline can identify dialectal content when its standard counterpart is sufficiently resourced and can then cluster it into four dialects. |
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