Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

PROGRAM

 Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2025: The NorSID Shared Task on Norwegian Slot, Intent and Dialect Identification
Yves Scherrer, Rob van der Goot and Petter Mæhlum
 Information Theory and Linguistic Variation: A Study of Brazilian and European Portuguese
Diego Alves
 Leveraging Open-Source Large Language Models for Native Language Identification
Yee Man Ng and Ilia Markov
 Adapting Whisper for Regional Dialects: Enhancing Public Services for Vulnerable Populations in the United Kingdom
Melissa Torgbi, Andrew Clayman, Jordan J. Speight and Harish Tayyar Madabushi
 Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal Translation
Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam and Antonios Anastasopoulos
 Testing the Boundaries of LLMs: Dialectal and Language-Variety Tasks
Fahim Faisal and Antonios Anastasopoulos
 Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy
Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe and Christoph Purschke
 Retrieval of Parallelizable Texts Across Church Slavic Variants
Piroska Lendvai, Uwe Reichel, Anna Jouravel, Achim Rabus and Elena Renje
 Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish Using Real-Life Variation Data
Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke and Barbara Plank
 Improving Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection with Auxiliary Tasks: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Case Study
Xaver Maria Krückl, Verena Blaschke and Barbara Plank
 Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian English
Steven Coats, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway and Debbie Loakes
 Learning Cross-Dialectal Morphophonology with Syllable Structure Constraints
Salam Khalifa, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner and Owen Rambow
 Common Ground, Diverse Roots: The Difficulty of Classifying Common Examples in Spanish Varieties
Javier A. Lopetegui, Arij Riabi and Djamé Seddah
 Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection
Verena Blaschke, Felicia Körner and Barbara Plank
 LTG at VarDial 2025 NorSID: More and Better Training Data for Slot and Intent Detection
Marthe Midtgaard, Petter Mæhlum and Yves Scherrer
 HiTZ at VarDial 2025 NorSID: Overcoming Data Scarcity with Language Transfer and Automatic Data Annotation
Jaione Bengoetxea, Mikel Zubillaga, Ekhi Azurmendi, Maite Heredia, Julen Etxaniz, Markel Ferro and Jeremy Barnes
 CUFE@VarDial 2025 NorSID: Multilingual BERT for Norwegian Dialect Identification and Intent Detection
Michael Ibrahim