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Adouane, Wafia,1985Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori,Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
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Romanized Berber and Romanized Arabic Automatic Language Identification Using Machine Learning
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Association for Computational Linguistics,2016
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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.
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Semmar, Nasredine
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Johansson, Richard,1975Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GU)(Swepub:gu)xjohri
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Göteborgs universitetInstitutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori
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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 Linguistics0736-587X
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