VarClass: An open-source language identification tool for language varieties

Zampieri, Marcos; Gebre, Binyam Gebrekidan

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VarClass: An open-source language identification tool for language varieties

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Gebre, Binyam Gebrekidan
The Language Archive, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Zampieri, M., & Gebre, B. G. (2014). VarClass: An open-source language identification tool for language varieties. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, H. Loftsson, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of LREC 2014: 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 3305-3308).

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-3238-7

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This paper presents VarClass, an open-source tool for language identification available both to be downloaded as well as through a graphical user-friendly interface. The main difference of VarClass in comparison to other state-of-the-art language identification tools is its focus on language varieties. General purpose language identification tools do not take language varieties into account and our work aims to fill this gap. VarClass currently contains language models for over 27 languages in which 10 of them are language varieties. We report an average performance of over 90.5% accuracy in a challenging dataset. More language models will be included in the upcoming months