Natural language processing for dialects of a language: A survey

A Joshi, R Dabre, D Kanojia, Z Li, H Zhan… - ACM Computing …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are trained on massive training
corpora, and report a superlative performance on evaluation datasets. This survey delves …

Nadi 2024: The fifth nuanced arabic dialect identification shared task

M Abdul-Mageed, A Keleg, AR Elmadany… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We describe the findings of the fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
(NADI 2024). NADI's objective is to help advance SoTA Arabic NLP by providing guidance …

Exploring the impact of transliteration on NLP performance: Treating Maltese as an Arabic dialect

Multilingual models such as mBERT have been demonstrated to exhibit impressive
crosslingual transfer for a number of languages. Despite this, the performance drops for …

Arabic dialect identification: An in-depth error analysis on the MADAR parallel corpus

H Olsen, S Touileb, E Velldal - Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023, 2023 - aclanthology.org
This paper provides a systematic analysis and comparison of the performance of state-of-the-
art models on the task of fine-grained Arabic dialect identification using the MADAR parallel …