ChatGPT for Identifying Saudi Arabic Dialects

Abstract

According to Alwakid (2020),Saudipeoplespeak-ingeneral- five main dialects namely; Hejazi (spoken by people in western regions), Najdi (spoken by people in central regions), Sharqawi (spoken by peo- ple in eastern regions), Janubi (spoken by people in southern regions), and Shamali (spoken by people in northern regions) were selected in this study. In this study, we examined the ability of ChatGPT to identify these sub-dialects by collecting a representative sample dataset from Twitter[1]. The experimental results demonstrate that ChatGPT achieved an overall accuracy of 0.42 in our sample dataset.