NADI 2020: The First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash
Abstract
We present the results and findings of the First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (NADI). This Shared Task includes two subtasks: country-level dialect identification (Subtask 1) and province-level sub-dialect identification (Subtask 2). The data for the shared task covers a total of 100 provinces from 21 Arab countries and is collected from the Twitter domain. As such, NADI is the first shared task to target naturally-occurring fine-grained dialectal text at the sub-country level. A total of 61 teams from 25 countries registered to participate in the tasks, thus reflecting the interest of the community in this area. We received 47 submissions for Subtask 1 from 18 teams and 9 submissions for Subtask 2 from 9 teams.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.wanlp-1.9
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona, Spain (Online)
- Editors:
- Imed Zitouni, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Houda Bouamor, Fethi Bougares, Mahmoud El-Haj, Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi Zaghouani
- Venue:
- WANLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 97–110
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.wanlp-1.9
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash. 2020. NADI 2020: The First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 97–110, Barcelona, Spain (Online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NADI 2020: The First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (Abdul-Mageed et al., WANLP 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.wanlp-1.9.pdf