ELDI

Developed methods to recognise the dialect of short texts such as social media posts, focusing on varieties of Arabic.

Publications

• Tokenization and Representation Biases in Multilingual Models on Dialectal NLP Tasks SAC Award
  Vani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardžić, Ljiljana Dolamic, Fabio Rinaldi
  Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025 · DOI
• NLP\_DI at NADI 2024 shared task: Multi-label Arabic Dialect Classifications with an Unsupervised Cross-Encoder
  Vani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardžić, Ljiljana Dolamic, Fabio Rinaldi
  Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, 2024 · DOI
• Optimizing the Size of Subword Vocabularies in Dialect Classification
  Vani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardžić, Ljiljana Dolamic, Fabio Rinaldi
  Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023), 2023 · DOI