Language Technologies as If People Mattered: Centering Communities in Language Technology Development

Nina Markl, Lauren Hall-Lew, Catherine Lai


Abstract
In this position paper we argue that researchers interested in language and/or language technologies should attend to challenges of linguistic and algorithmic injustice together with language communities. We put forward that this can be done by drawing together diverse scholarly and experiential insights, building strong interdisciplinary teams, and paying close attention to the wider social, cultural and historical contexts of both language communities and the technologies we aim to develop.
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2024.lrec-main.881
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
Year:
2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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10085–10099
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.881
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Nina Markl, Lauren Hall-Lew, and Catherine Lai. 2024. Language Technologies as If People Mattered: Centering Communities in Language Technology Development. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 10085–10099, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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