Papers by Samantha Wray
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. |
LexiVault: A Repository for Psycholinguistic Lexicons of Lesser-studied Languages (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | LexiVault is an open-source web tool with annotated lexicons and rich retrieval capabilities primarily developed for, but not restricted to, the support of psycholinguistic research . |
| Approach: | They propose to use LexiVault to design stimuli for low-resource languages with annotated lexicons and rich retrieval capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The LexiVault tool is designed to be user friendly and accommodate incremental growth of new and existing low-resource language lexicons in the system while abstracting programming complexity to foster more interest from the psycholinguistics community in exploring low-rsource languages. |