@proceedings{ws-2017-nlp,
    title = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1200/"
}
@inproceedings{zampieri-etal-2017-findings,
    title = "Findings of the {V}ar{D}ial Evaluation Campaign 2017",
    author = {Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Ali, Ahmed  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Scherrer, Yves  and
      Aepli, No{\"e}mi},
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1201/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1201",
    pages = "1--15"
}
@inproceedings{donoso-sanchez-2017-dialectometric,
    title = "Dialectometric analysis of language variation in {T}witter",
    author = "Donoso, Gonzalo  and
      S{\'a}nchez, David",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1202/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1202",
    pages = "16--25"
}
@inproceedings{rama-etal-2017-computational,
    title = "Computational analysis of {G}ondi dialects",
    author = {Rama, Taraka  and
      {\c{C}}{\"o}ltekin, {\c{C}}a{\u{g}}r{\i}  and
      Sofroniev, Pavel},
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1203/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1203",
    pages = "26--35"
}
@inproceedings{dipper-waldenberger-2017-investigating,
    title = "Investigating Diatopic Variation in a Historical Corpus",
    author = "Dipper, Stefanie  and
      Waldenberger, Sandra",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1204/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1204",
    pages = "36--45"
}
@inproceedings{rosso-2017-author,
    title = "Author Profiling at {PAN}: from Age and Gender Identification to Language Variety Identification (invited talk)",
    author = "Rosso, Paolo",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1205/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1205",
    pages = "46"
}
@inproceedings{feleke-2017-similarity,
    title = "The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between {A}mharic and {T}igrigna Varieties",
    author = "Feleke, Tekabe Legesse",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1206/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1206",
    pages = "47--54"
}
@inproceedings{costa-jussa-2017-catalan,
    title = "Why {C}atalan-{S}panish Neural Machine Translation? Analysis, comparison and combination with standard Rule and Phrase-based technologies",
    author = "Costa-juss{\`a}, Marta R.",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1207/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1207",
    pages = "55--62"
}
@inproceedings{hassani-2017-kurdish,
    title = "{K}urdish Interdialect Machine Translation",
    author = "Hassani, Hossein",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1208/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1208",
    pages = "63--72"
}
@inproceedings{williams-dagli-2017-twitter,
    title = "{T}witter Language Identification Of Similar Languages And Dialects Without Ground Truth",
    author = "Williams, Jennifer  and
      Dagli, Charlie",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1209/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1209",
    pages = "73--83"
}
@inproceedings{scherrer-rabus-2017-multi,
    title = "Multi-source morphosyntactic tagging for spoken {R}usyn",
    author = "Scherrer, Yves  and
      Rabus, Achim",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1210/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1210",
    pages = "84--92"
}
@inproceedings{hanani-etal-2017-identifying,
    title = "Identifying dialects with textual and acoustic cues",
    author = "Hanani, Abualsoud  and
      Qaroush, Aziz  and
      Taylor, Stephen",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1211/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1211",
    pages = "93--101"
}
@inproceedings{jauhiainen-etal-2017-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating {H}e{LI} with Non-Linear Mappings",
    author = "Jauhiainen, Tommi  and
      Lind{\'e}n, Krister  and
      Jauhiainen, Heidi",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1212/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1212",
    pages = "102--108"
}
@inproceedings{gamallo-etal-2017-perplexity,
    title = "A Perplexity-Based Method for Similar Languages Discrimination",
    author = "Gamallo, Pablo  and
      Pichel, Jose Ramom  and
      Alegria, I{\~n}aki",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1213/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1213",
    pages = "109--114"
}
@inproceedings{bestgen-2017-improving,
    title = "Improving the Character Ngram Model for the {DSL} Task with {BM}25 Weighting and Less Frequently Used Feature Sets",
    author = "Bestgen, Yves",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1214/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1214",
    pages = "115--123"
}
@inproceedings{criscuolo-aluisio-2017-discriminating,
    title = "Discriminating between Similar Languages with Word-level Convolutional Neural Networks",
    author = "Criscuolo, Marcelo  and
      Alu{\'i}sio, Sandra Maria",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1215/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1215",
    pages = "124--130"
}
@inproceedings{tiedemann-2017-cross,
    title = "Cross-lingual dependency parsing for closely related languages - {H}elsinki{'}s submission to {V}ar{D}ial 2017",
    author = {Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1216/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1216",
    pages = "131--136"
}
@inproceedings{gomez-etal-2017-discriminating,
    title = "Discriminating between Similar Languages Using a Combination of Typed and Untyped Character N-grams and Words",
    author = "Gomez, Helena  and
      Markov, Ilia  and
      Baptista, Jorge  and
      Sidorov, Grigori  and
      Pinto, David",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1217/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1217",
    pages = "137--145"
}
@inproceedings{coltekin-rama-2017-tubingen,
    title = {{T}{\"u}bingen system in {V}ar{D}ial 2017 shared task: experiments with language identification and cross-lingual parsing},
    author = {{\c{C}}{\"o}ltekin, {\c{C}}a{\u{g}}r{\i}  and
      Rama, Taraka},
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1218/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1218",
    pages = "146--155"
}
@inproceedings{medvedeva-etal-2017-sparse,
    title = "When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages",
    author = "Medvedeva, Maria  and
      Kroon, Martin  and
      Plank, Barbara",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1219/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1219",
    pages = "156--163"
}
@inproceedings{malmasi-zampieri-2017-german,
    title = "{G}erman Dialect Identification in Interview Transcriptions",
    author = "Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Zampieri, Marcos",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1220/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1220",
    pages = "164--169"
}
@inproceedings{clematide-makarov-2017-cluzh,
    title = "{CLUZH} at {V}ar{D}ial {GDI} 2017: Testing a Variety of Machine Learning Tools for the Classification of {S}wiss {G}erman Dialects",
    author = "Clematide, Simon  and
      Makarov, Peter",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1221/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1221",
    pages = "170--177"
}
@inproceedings{malmasi-zampieri-2017-arabic,
    title = "{A}rabic Dialect Identification Using i{V}ectors and {ASR} Transcripts",
    author = "Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Zampieri, Marcos",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1222/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1222",
    pages = "178--183"
}
@inproceedings{barbaresi-2017-discriminating,
    title = "Discriminating between Similar Languages using Weighted Subword Features",
    author = "Barbaresi, Adrien",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1223/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1223",
    pages = "184--189"
}
@inproceedings{van-der-lee-van-den-bosch-2017-exploring,
    title = "Exploring Lexical and Syntactic Features for Language Variety Identification",
    author = "van der Lee, Chris  and
      van den Bosch, Antal",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1224/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1224",
    pages = "190--199"
}
@inproceedings{ionescu-butnaru-2017-learning,
    title = "Learning to Identify {A}rabic and {G}erman Dialects using Multiple Kernels",
    author = "Ionescu, Radu Tudor  and
      Butnaru, Andrei",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1225/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1225",
    pages = "200--209"
}
@inproceedings{rosa-etal-2017-slavic,
    title = "{S}lavic Forest, {N}orwegian Wood",
    author = "Rosa, Rudolf  and
      Zeman, Daniel  and
      Mare{\v{c}}ek, David  and
      {\v{Z}}abokrtsk{\'y}, Zden{\v{e}}k",
    editor = {Nakov, Preslav  and
      Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shevin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/credits/W17-1226/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1226",
    pages = "210--219"
}