# When Sparse Traditional Models Outperform Dense Neural Networks: the Curious Case of Discriminating between Similar Languages

> Research article (Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages,
          Varieties and Dialects (VarDial), 2017) · cited 49× · AI/ML

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