Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification
[Read Full-Text] [Presentation Slides] This paper evaluates global-scale dialect identification for 14 national varieties of English as a means for studying syntactic variation. The paper makes three main contributions: (i) introducing data-driven language mapping as a method for selecting the inventory of national varieties to include in the task; (ii) producing a large and dynamic … More Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification