DSL Shared Task 2016: Perfect Is The Enemy of Good Language Discrimination Through Expectation–Maximization and Chunk-based Language Model

Ondřej Herman, Vít Suchomel, Vít Baisa, Pavel Rychlý


Abstract
In this paper we investigate two approaches to discrimination of similar languages: Expectation–maximization algorithm for estimating conditional probability P(word|language) and byte level language models similar to compression-based language modelling methods. The accuracy of these methods reached respectively 86.6% and 88.3% on set A of the DSL Shared task 2016 competition.
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W16-4815
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial3)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Preslav Nakov, Marcos Zampieri, Liling Tan, Nikola Ljubešić, Jörg Tiedemann, Shervin Malmasi
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VarDial
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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114–118
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Ondřej Herman, Vít Suchomel, Vít Baisa, and Pavel Rychlý. 2016. DSL Shared Task 2016: Perfect Is The Enemy of Good Language Discrimination Through Expectation–Maximization and Chunk-based Language Model. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial3), pages 114–118, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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DSL Shared Task 2016: Perfect Is The Enemy of Good Language Discrimination Through Expectation–Maximization and Chunk-based Language Model (Herman et al., VarDial 2016)
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