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Dear all,
Hope you're all fine.
Breaking our Summer holidays' radio silence, I'm sharing
the paper below, with flattering news for us. My apologies
if you have already stumbled upon it.
It is a recent paper, published last July in ACL,
in a special theme track they promoted this year,
aimed at positive discrimination, namely at attracting
"out of the(ir) box" papers, which would have been
very likely rejected from ACL2020 otherwise.
The key goals of this paper are "making the [ACL] community aware
of the gap that needs to be filled before we can truly claim
state-of-the-art technologies to be language agnostic"/universal,
and "attempt to convince the ACL community to prioritize
the resolution of the predicaments highlighted here,
so that no language is left behind."
One of its major, and duly emphasized, conclusion confirms
(objectively)
what we were (subjectively) sure about: "LREC has been more
inclusive
across different classes of languages" when compared
to all the other top-tier NLP/CL venues (conferences and journal).
All the best,
António
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The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the
NLP World
Joshi et al, 2020, acl
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.560.pdf
Language technologies contribute to promot-ing multilingualism
and linguistic diversity around the world. However, only a very
small number
of the over 7000 languages of the world are represented in the
rapidly
evolving language technologies and applications. In this paper we
look at
the relation between the types of languages, resources, and
their representation in NLP conferences to understandt he
trajectory
that different languages havefollowed over time. Our quantitative
investigation underlines the disparity between languages,
especially in terms
of their resources, and calls into question the “language
agnostic” status
of current models and systems.
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