Datasets › Nordic Language Identification
Nordic Language Identification
Automatic language identification is a challenging problem. Discriminating between closely related languages is especially difficult. This paper presents a machine-learning approach for automatic language identification for the Nordic languages, which often suffer miscategorization by existing state-of-the-art tools. Concretely we will focus on discrimination between six Nordic languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norwegian (Bokmål), Faroese, and Icelandic. This is the data for the tasks. Two variants are provided: 10K and 50K, withholding 10,000 and 50,000 examples for each language respectively.
This dataset is in six similar Nordic languages: 1. Danish, da 2. Faroese, fo 3. Icelandic, is 4. Norwegian Bokmål, nb 5. Norwegian Nynorsk, nn 6. Swedish, sv
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language Identification | Nordic Language Identification | FastText Accuracy 0.9711 | Discriminating Between Similar Nordic Languages | renhaa/NordicDSL +1 | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 1. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discriminating Between Similar Nordic Languages | 2 | 1 | 11 Dec 2020 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
No licence recorded in the archive. Absence here is not a statement about the dataset's terms.
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- Nordic Language Identification
1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections