Machine Learning-Based Approach for Arabic Dialect Identification
Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop • 2021
Publication Information
Authors
Mahmoud S. Ali;Ahmed H. Ali;Ahmed A. El-Sawy;Hamada A. Nayel
Keywords
Arabic Dialect Identification; Arabic NLP
Journal
Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
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publication.type
International
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Abstract
This paper describes our systems submitted to the Second Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (NADI 2021). Dialect identification is the task of automatically detecting the source variety of a given text or speech segment. There are four subtasks, two subtasks for country-level identification and the other two subtasks for province-level identification. The data in this task covers a total of 100 provinces from all 21 Arab countries and come from the Twitter domain. The proposed systems depend on five machine-learning approaches namely Complement Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Logistic Regression and Random Forest Classifiers. F1 macro-averaged score of Naïve Bayes classifier outperformed all other classifiers for development and test data.
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