This paper describes the Helsinki--Ljubljana contribution to the VarDial 2021 shared task on social media variety geolocation. Following our successful participation at VarDial 2020, we again propose constrained and unconstrained systems based on the
BERT architecture. In this paper, we report experiments with different tokenization settings and different pre-trained models, and we contrast our parameter-free regression approach with various classification schemes proposed by other participants at VarDial 2020. Both the code and the best-performing pre-trained models are made freely available.
The research objective is to perceive the nature of relationship between Latakia and Tartous
ports with the other seaports of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, identifying whether it is
integrating, competing or neutral relations, in the mea
ntime, another research objective arises, it is
to analyze the influence of the geographic location on these regions’ sea ports inter-relationship,
the research concluded the presence of a competing relationship between Latakia and Tartous
against the ports of Mersin, Beirut, Haifa, Ashdod, on the contrary, there has proved a cooperative
and integrative relationship between the Egyptian Ports of Port Said, Damietta and Alexandria, the
same relation with a lower degree with the other Arabian ports and the Syrian trade partners sea
ports , while other ports were neutral ,the research concluded the importance of making use of the
comparative advantages enabled by the geographic location of Latakia and Tartous ports, also the
importance of developing its port capacity and facilities, focusing on improving their performance,
productivity and the application of effective marketing policies.
