Classification of Closely Related Sub-dialects of Arabic Using Support-Vector Machines (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on dialect identification have focused on binary classifications between colloquial Arabic and dialectal Egyptian . |
| Approach: | They propose to use an n-gram based SVM to classify on a fine-grained sub-dialectal level and compare it to methods used in dialect classification such as vocabulary pruning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is compared to methods used in dialect classification such as vocabulary pruning of shared items across dialects. |
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