Comparing Approaches to Dravidian Language Identification
Tommi Jauhiainen,
Tharindu Ranasinghe,
Marcos Zampieri
Abstract:This paper describes the submissions by team HWR to the Dravidian Language Identification (DLI) shared task organized at VarDial 2021 workshop. The DLI training set includes 16,674 YouTube comments written in Roman script containing code-mixed text with English and one of the three South Dravidian languages: Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil. We submitted results generated using two models, a Naive Bayes classifier with adaptive language models, which has shown to obtain competitive performance in many language an… Show more
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