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Experiments in Sentence Language Identification with Groups of Similar Languages

Ben King, Dragomir Radev, Steven Abney

2014 · 24 citations · 13 references

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Language identification is a simple problem that becomes much more difficult when its usual assumptions are broken. In this paper we consider the task of classifying short segments of text in closely-related languages for the Discriminating Similar Languages shared task, which is broken

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