What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs
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- What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs
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In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has given increased attention to the disparity of efforts directed towards high-resource languages over low-resource ones. Efforts to remedy this delta often begin with translations of existing English datasets into other languages. However, this approach ignores that different language communities have different needs. We consider a group of low-resource languages, Creole languages. Creoles are both largely absent from the NLP literature, and also often ignored by society at large due to stigma, despite these languages having sizable and vibrant communities. We demonstrate, through conversations with Creole experts and surveys of Creole-speaking communities, how the things needed from language technology can change dramatically from one language to another, even when the languages are considered to be very similar to each other, as with Creoles. We discuss the prominent themes arising from these conversations, and ultimately demonstrate that useful language technology cannot be built without involving the relevant community.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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| Titel | Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference |
| Redaktører | Nicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis |
| Forlag | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
| Publikationsdato | 2022 |
| Sider | 6439-6449 |
| ISBN (Elektronisk) | 9791095546726 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
| Begivenhed | 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 - Marseille, Frankrig Varighed: 20 jun. 2022 → 25 jun. 2022 |
Konference
| Konference | 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 |
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| Land | Frankrig |
| By | Marseille |
| Periode | 20/06/2022 → 25/06/2022 |
| Sponsor | 3M, Emvista, et al., Google, SADILAR, Vocapia |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Creole language experts and Creole speakers, without whom, this work would not be possible. This includes Michel Degraff (MIT Haiti Initiative), Christina Higgins (Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies), and our Creole-speaking colleagues in NLP, namely, Samson Tan (National University of Singapore; Sales-force) and Rasul Dent (Université de Lorraine). Finally, this project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801199 (for Heather Lent) the Swedish Research Council Grant 2020-00437 (for Miryam de Lhoneux), and the Google Research Award (for Heather Lent and Anders Søgaard).
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Creole language experts and Creole speakers, without whom, this work would not be possible. This includes Michel Degraff (MIT Haiti Initiative), Christina Higgins (Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies), and our Creole-speaking colleagues in NLP, namely, Samson Tan (National University of Singapore; Sales-force) and Rasul Dent (Université de Lorraine). Finally, this project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801199 (for Heather Lent) ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆, the Swedish Research Council Grant 2020-00437 (for Miryam de Lhoneux), and the Google Research Award (for Heather Lent and Anders Søgaard).
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