Zeineuski — Basque Dialect Identification Fine grained dialect identification (DID) system for Basque (Euskara). Given a text or speech sample, classifies it into one of six dialect categories: Western (Bizkaiera), Central (Gipuzkera), Navarrese, Navarrese Labourdin, Souletin (Zuberera), or Standard Basque (Batua). Source code: github.com/itzune/zeineuski Architecture Zeineuski uses a three tier hierarchical classification architecture: Classification taxonomy The project follows Koldo Zuazo's dialect classification , which is the current linguistic consensus and the basis for Ahotsak.eus's municipality→dialect mapping. Zuazo recognizes 6 euskalkiak (dialects): Euskalkia Our label Notes 1 Bizkaiera / Mendebalekoa western 2 Gipuzkera / Erdialdekoa central 3 Goi nafarrera navarrese Upper Navarrese 4 Ekialdeko nafarrera / Erronkariera (merged into navarrese) Extinct ~1990s; tiny data 5 Zuberera souletin 6 Nafar lapurtera nav lab + Euskara batua batua Standard unified Basque Why 5 euskalkis + batua instead of 6 + batua? Ekialdeko nafarrera (Salazarese/Roncalese) is linguistically a distinct dialect, but it has been functionally extinct since the 1990s (last native speaker died in 1991)…
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