When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages

Maria Medvedeva, Martin Kroon, Barbara Plank. When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages. In Preslav Nakov, Marcos Zampieri, Nikola Ljubesic, Jörg Tiedemann, Shervin Malmasi, Ahmed Ali, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, VarDial 2017, Valencia, Spain, April 3, 2017. pages 156-163, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017. [doi]

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