Abstract
In this paper, we describe a spoken Arabic dialect identification (ADI) model for Arabic that consistently outperforms previously published results on two benchmark datasets: ADI-5 and ADI-17. We explore two architectural variations: ResNet and ECAPA-TDNN, coupled with two types of acoustic features: MFCCs and features exratected from the pre-trained self-supervised model UniSpeech-SAT Large, as well as a fusion of all four variants. We find that individually, ECAPA-TDNN network outperforms ResNet, and models with UniSpeech-SAT features outperform models with MFCCs by a large margin. Furthermore, a fusion of all four variants consistently outperforms individual models. Our best models outperform previously reported results on both datasets, with accuracies of 84.7% and 96.9% on ADI-5 and ADI-17, respectively.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.arabicnlp-1.37
- Volume:
- Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore (Hybrid)
- Editors:
- Hassan Sawaf, Samhaa El-Beltagy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Nizar Habash, Salam Khalifa, Amr Keleg, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Khalil Mrini, Rawan Almatham
- Venues:
- ArabicNLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 435–440
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.37
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.arabicnlp-1.37
- Cite (ACL):
- Ajinkya Kulkarni and Hanan Aldarmaki. 2023. Yet Another Model for Arabic Dialect Identification. In Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023, pages 435–440, Singapore (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Yet Another Model for Arabic Dialect Identification (Kulkarni & Aldarmaki, ArabicNLP-WS 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.arabicnlp-1.37.pdf