Arabic is recognised as the 4th most used language of the Internet. Arabic has three main
varieties:(1) classical Arabic (CA),(2) Modern Standard Arabic (MSA),(3) Arabic Dialect (AD) …

We present a structured overview of adaptation algorithms for neural network-based speech
recognition, considering both hybrid hidden Markov model/neural network systems and end …

This overview presents the framework and the results of the Author Profiling task at PAN
2017. The objective of this year is to address gender and language variety identification. For …

Language identification (" LI") is the problem of determining the natural language that a
document or part thereof is written in. Automatic LI has been extensively researched for over …

We present the results of the third edition of the Discriminating between Similar Languages
(DSL) shared task, which was organized as part of the VarDial'2016 workshop at …

We present the results of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign on Natural Language
Processing (NLP) for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, which we organized as part …

It is becoming increasingly difficult to know who is working on what and how in
computational studies of Dialectal Arabic. This study comes to chart the field by conducting a …

In this paper, we present the findings of the Third VarDial Evaluation Campaign organized
as part of the sixth edition of the workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for …

This paper describes the Arabic MGB-3 Challenge-Arabic Speech Recognition in the Wild.
Unlike last year's Arabic MGB-2 Challenge, for which the recognition task was based on …

This paper presents a novel deep neural network (DNN) for multimodal fusion of audio,
video and text modalities for emotion recognition. The proposed DNN architecture has …