What Do Dialect Speakers Want? A Survey of Attitudes Towards Language Technology for German Dialects

Understand

Natural language processing (NLP) has largely focused on modelling standardized languages.

• More recently, attention has increasingly shifted to local, non-standardized languages and dialects.
• However, the relevant speaker populations' needs and wishes with respect to NLP tools are largely unknown.
• In this paper, we focus on dialects and regional languages related to German -- a group of varieties that is heterogeneous in terms of prestige and standardization.