@inproceedings{simons-etal-2024-highly,
    title = "Highly Granular Dialect Normalization and Phonological Dialect Translation for {L}imburgish",
    author = "Simons, Andreas  and
      De Pascale, Stefano  and
      Franco, Karlien",
    editor = {Scherrer, Yves  and
      Jauhiainen, Tommi  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Add-Cong-Liu-Florida-Atlantic-University-author-id/2024.vardial-1.13/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.vardial-1.13",
    pages = "152--162",
    abstract = "We study highly granular dialect normalization and phonological dialect translation on Limburgish, a non-standardized low-resource language with a wide variation in spelling conventions and phonology. We find improvements to the traditional transformer by embedding the geographic coordinates of dialects in dialect normalization tasks and use these geographically-embedded transformers to translate words between the phonologies of different dialects. These results are found to be consistent with notions in traditional Limburgish dialectology."
}