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Bilingual Word Level Language Identification for Omotic Languages

Mesay Gemeda Yigezu·Girma Yohannis Bade·Atnafu Lambebo Tonja·Olga Kolesnikova·Grigori Sidorov·Alexander Gelbukh
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Language identification is the task of determining the languages for a given text. In many real world scenarios, text may contain more than one language, particularly in multilingual communities. Bilingual Language Identification (BLID) is the task of identifying and distinguishing between two languages in a given text. This paper presents BLID for languages spoken in the southern part of Ethiopia, namely Wolaita and Gofa. The presence of words similarities and differences between the two languages makes the language identification task challenging. To overcome this challenge, we employed various experiments on various approaches. Then, the combination of the BERT based pretrained language model and LSTM approach performed better, with an F1 score of 0.72 on the test set. As a result, the work will be effective in tackling unwanted social media issues and providing a foundation for further research in this area.

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Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Girma Yohannis Bade, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh. 2025-09-05. Bilingual Word Level Language Identification for Omotic Languages. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07998

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