@inproceedings{ciobanu-etal-2018-german,
    title = "{G}erman Dialect Identification Using Classifier Ensembles",
    author = "Ciobanu, Alina Maria  and
      Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Dinu, Liviu P.",
    editor = {Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Ali, Ahmed},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on {NLP} for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects ({V}ar{D}ial 2018)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W18-3933/",
    pages = "288--294",
    abstract = "In this paper we present the GDI classification entry to the second German Dialect Identification (GDI) shared task organized within the scope of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2018. We present a system based on SVM classifier ensembles trained on characters and words. The system was trained on a collection of speech transcripts of five Swiss-German dialects provided by the organizers. The transcripts included in the dataset contained speakers from Basel, Bern, Lucerne, and Zurich. Our entry in the challenge reached 62.03{\%} F1 score and was ranked third out of eight teams."
}