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Romanized Berber and Romanized Arabic Automatic Language Identification Using Machine Learning
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- Adouane, Wafia, 1985 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori,Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
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Semmar, Nasredine (author)
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- Johansson, Richard, 1975 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GU)
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- Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016
- 2016
- English.
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In: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects; 53–61; December 12, 2016 ; Osaka, Japan. - : Association for Computational Linguistics. - 0736-587X.
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- The identification of the language of text/speech input is the first step to be able to properly do any language-dependent natural language processing. The task is called Automatic Language Identification (ALI). Being a well-studied field since early 1960’s, various methods have been applied to many standard languages. The ALI standard methods require datasets for training and use character/word-based n-gram models. However, social media and new technologies have contributed to the rise of informal and minority languages on the Web. The state-of-the-art automatic language identifiers fail to properly identify many of them. Romanized Arabic (RA) and Romanized Berber (RB) are cases of these informal languages which are under-resourced. The goal of this paper is twofold: detect RA and RB, at a document level, as separate languages and distinguish between them as they coexist in North Africa. We consider the task as a classification problem and use supervised machine learning to solve it. For both languages, character-based 5-grams combined with additional lexicons score the best, F-score of 99.75% and 97.77% for RB and RA respectively.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Språkteknologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Language Technology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- natural language processing
- Berber
- Arabic
- language classification
- machine learning
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