@inproceedings{hartwig-etal-2023-identification,
    title = "Identification of Dialect for Eastern and {S}outhwestern {O}jibwe Words Using a Small Corpus",
    author = "Hartwig, Kalvin  and
      Lucas, Evan  and
      Havens, Timothy",
    editor = "Mager, Manuel  and
      Ebrahimi, Abteen  and
      Oncevay, Arturo  and
      Rice, Enora  and
      Rijhwani, Shruti  and
      Palmer, Alexis  and
      Kann, Katharina",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.americasnlp-1.8",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.americasnlp-1.8",
    pages = "58--66",
    abstract = "The Ojibwe language has several dialects that vary to some degree in both spoken and written form. We present a method of using support vector machines to classify two different dialects (Eastern and Southwestern Ojibwe) using a very small corpus of text. Classification accuracy at the sentence level is 90{\%} across a five-fold cross validation and 72{\%} when the sentence-trained model is applied to a data set of individual words. Our code and the word level data set are released openly on Github at [link to be inserted for final version, working demonstration notebook uploaded with paper].",
}

The Ojibwe language has several dialects that vary to some degree in both spoken and written form. We present a method of using support vector machines to classify two different dialects (Eastern and Southwestern Ojibwe) using a very small corpus of text. Classification accuracy at the sentence level is 90{\%} across a five-fold cross validation and 72{\%} when the sentence-trained model is applied to a data set of individual words. Our code and the word level data set are released openly on Github at [link to be inserted for final version, working demonstration notebook uploaded with paper].
Hartwig, Kalvin Lucas, Evan Havens, Timothy
Identification of Dialect for Eastern and Southwestern Ojibwe Words Using a Small Corpus