CONF Parida_SWISSTEXT&KONVENS2020_2020/IDIAP Idiap Submission to Swiss-German Language Detection Shared Task Parida, Shantipriya Villatoro-Tello, Esaú Kumar, Sajit Motlicek, Petr Zhan, Qingran http://publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publications/showcite/Parida_Idiap-RR-11-2020 Related documents Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) 2020 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1613-0073 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/germeval-task2-paper4.pdf URL Language detection is a key part of the NLP pipeline for text processing. The task of automatically detecting languages belonging to disjoint groups is relatively easy. It is considerably challenging to detect languages that have similar origins or dialects. This paper describes Idiap’s submission to the 2020 Germeval evaluation campaign1on Swiss-German language detection. In this work, we have given high dimensional features generated from the text data as input to a supervised autoencoder for detecting languages with dialect variances. Bayesian optimizer was used to fine-tune the hyper-parameters of the supervised autoencoder. To the best of our knowledge,we are first to apply supervised autoen-coder for the language detection task. REPORT Parida_Idiap-RR-11-2020/IDIAP Idiap Submission to Swiss-German Language Detection Shared Task Parida, Shantipriya Villatoro-Tello, Esaú Kumar, Sajit Motlicek, Petr Zhan, Qingran EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2020/Parida_Idiap-RR-11-2020.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-11-2020 2020 Idiap June 2020