We present an analysis of the performance of machine learning classifiers on discriminating between similar languages and language varieties. We carried out a number of experiments using the results of the two editions of the Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL) shared task. We investigate the progress made between the two tasks, estimate an upper bound on possible performance using ensemble and oracle combination, and provide learning curves to help us understand which languages are more challenging. A number of difficult sentences are identified and investigated further with human annotation.
@article{arxiv.1610.00031,
title = {Discriminating Similar Languages: Evaluations and Explorations},
author = {Cyril Goutte and Serge Léger and Shervin Malmasi and Marcos Zampieri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00031},
year = {2016}
}
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Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)