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Automatic language identification is a natural language processing problem that tries to determine the natural language of a given content. In this paper we present a statistical method for automatic language identification of written text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Julien Velcin , Alexandru Boicea

The debate surrounding language identification has gained renewed attention in recent years, especially with the rapid evolution of AI-powered language models. However, the non-AI-based approaches to language identification have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Paul-Andrei Pogăcean , Sanda-Maria Avram

Without prior knowledge, distinguishing different languages may be a hard task, especially when their borders are permeable. We develop an extension of spectral clustering -- a powerful unsupervised classification toolbox -- that is shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2008-10-08 Richard Nock , Pascal Vaillant , Frank Nielsen , Claudia Henry

Language identification (LID) is an essential step in building high-quality multilingual datasets from web data. Existing LID tools (such as OpenLID or GlotLID) often struggle to identify closely related languages and to distinguish valid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mariia Fedorova , Nikolay Arefyev , Maja Buljan , Jindřich Helcl , Stephan Oepen , Egil Rønningstad , Yves Scherrer

This paper introduces a new suite of question answering datasets for Norwegian; NorOpenBookQA, NorCommonSenseQA, NorTruthfulQA, and NRK-Quiz-QA. The data covers a wide range of skills and knowledge domains, including world knowledge,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Vladislav Mikhailov , Petter Mæhlum , Victoria Ovedie Chruickshank Langø , Erik Velldal , Lilja Øvrelid

We tackle the task of automatically discriminating between human and machine translations. As opposed to most previous work, we perform experiments in a multilingual setting, considering multiple languages and multilingual pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Malina Chichirau , Rik van Noord , Antonio Toral

State-of-the-art machine translation (MT) systems are typically trained to generate the "standard" target language; however, many languages have multiple varieties (regional varieties, dialects, sociolects, non-native varieties) that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sachin Kumar , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Shuly Wintner , Yulia Tsvetkov

The ambition of a character recognition system is to transform a text document typed on paper into a digital format that can be manipulated by word processor software Unlike other languages, Arabic has unique features, while other language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-06-15 A. A Zaidan , B. B Zaidan , Hamid. A. Jalab , Hamdan. O. Alanazi , Rami Alnaqeib

Background: The mapping of tree species within Norwegian forests is a time-consuming process, involving forest associations relying on manual labeling by experts. The process can involve both aerial imagery, personal familiarity, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Martijn Vermeer , Jacob Alexander Hay , David Völgyes , Zsófia Koma , Johannes Breidenbach , Daniele Stefano Maria Fantin

Understanding accent is an issue which can derail any human-machine interaction. Accent classification makes this task easier by identifying the accent being spoken by a person so that the correct words being spoken can be identified by…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Asad Ahmed , Pratham Tangri , Anirban Panda , Dhruv Ramani , Samarjit Karmakar

State-of-the-art spoken language identification (LID) systems, which are based on end-to-end deep neural networks, have shown remarkable success not only in discriminating between distant languages but also between closely-related languages…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Badr M. Abdullah , Tania Avgustinova , Bernd Möbius , Dietrich Klakow

Studying bias detection and mitigation methods in natural language processing and the particular case of machine translation is highly relevant, as societal stereotypes might be reflected or reinforced by these systems. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Catherine Ikae , Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

We present a large Norwegian lexical resource of categorized medical terms. The resource merges information from large medical databases, and contains over 77,000 unique entries, including automatically mapped terms from a Norwegian medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ildikó Pilán , Pål H. Brekke , Lilja Øvrelid

Speech recognition systems have made tremendous progress since the last few decades. They have developed significantly in identifying the speech of the speaker. However, there is a scope of improvement in speech recognition systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Pierre Berjon , Avishek Nag , Soumyabrata Dev

Throughout language history, words are borrowed from one language to another and gradually become integrated into the recipient's lexicon. Speakers can often differentiate these loanwords from native vocabulary, particularly in bilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mérilin Sousa Silva , Sina Ahmadi

The first step in any voice recognition software is to determine what language a speaker is using, and ideally this process would be automated. The technique described in this paper, language identification for audio spectrograms (LIFAS),…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Shauna Revay , Matthew Teschke

Knowing the language of an input text/audio is a necessary first step for using almost every NLP tool such as taggers, parsers, or translation systems. Language identification is a well-studied problem, sometimes even considered solved; in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Milind Agarwal , Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam , Antonios Anastasopoulos

Despite impressive performance on many text classification tasks, deep neural networks tend to learn frequent superficial patterns that are specific to the training data and do not always generalize well. In this work, we observe this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Sachin Kumar , Shuly Wintner , Noah A. Smith , Yulia Tsvetkov

Language identification is the task of determining the languages for a given text. In many real world scenarios, text may contain more than one language, particularly in multilingual communities. Bilingual Language Identification (BLID) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Mesay Gemeda Yigezu , Girma Yohannis Bade , Atnafu Lambebo Tonja , Olga Kolesnikova , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Unlike major Western languages, most African languages are very low-resourced. Furthermore, the resources that do exist are often scattered and difficult to obtain and discover. As a result, the data and code for existing research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Laura Martinus , Jade Z. Abbott