arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.CYcs.LGcs.NE2026-07-22
Learning the Arabic Dialect Continuum as a Continuous Space: A Regression Approach to Speaker Origin Prediction
Mohamed Aziz Khadraoui, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira, Zahid Khan, Skander Turki, Wadii Boulila
We present a regression-based approach to Arabic dialect geolocation that models dialectal variation as a continuous geographic space rather than discrete categories. Speaker origin is predicted as continuous latitude-longitude coordinates using a hierarchical neural architecture…