Paper ID: 2208.00752

Data Collection and Analysis of French Dialects

Omar Shaur Choudhry, Paul Omara Odida, Joshua Reiner, Keiron Appleyard, Danielle Kushnir, William Toon

This paper discusses creating and analysing a new dataset for data mining and text analytics research, contributing to a joint Leeds University research project for the Corpus of National Dialects. This report investigates machine learning classifiers to classify samples of French dialect text across various French-speaking countries. Following the steps of the CRISP-DM methodology, this report explores the data collection process, data quality issues and data conversion for text analysis. Finally, after applying suitable data mining techniques, the evaluation methods, best overall features and classifiers and conclusions are discussed.

Submitted: Aug 1, 2022