@inproceedings{bernier-colborne-goutte-2020-challenges,
    title = "Challenges in Neural Language Identification: {NRC} at {V}ar{D}ial 2020",
    author = "Bernier-Colborne, Gabriel  and
      Goutte, Cyril",
    editor = {Zampieri, Marcos  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Ljube{\v{s}}i{\'c}, Nikola  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Scherrer, Yves},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2020.vardial-1.26/",
    pages = "273--282",
    abstract = "We describe the systems developed by the National Research Council Canada for the Uralic language identification shared task at the 2020 VarDial evaluation campaign. Although our official results were well below the baseline, we show in this paper that this was not due to the neural approach to language identification in general, but to a flaw in the function we used to sample data for training and evaluation purposes. Preliminary experiments conducted after the evaluation period suggest that our neural approach to language identification can achieve state-of-the-art results on this task, although further experimentation is required."
}