ELYADATA at NADI 2024 shared task: Arabic Dialect Identification with Similarity-Induced Mono-to-Multi Label Transformation.

AbstractThis paper describes our submissions to the Multi-label Country-level Dialect Identification subtask of the NADI2024 shared task, organized during the second edition of the ArabicNLP conference. Our submission is based on the ensemble of fine-tuned BERT-based models, after implementing the Similarity-Induced Mono-to-Multi Label Transformation (SIMMT) on the input data. Our submission ranked first with a Macro-Average (MA) F1 score of 50.57%.