Should We Ban English NLP for a Year?
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Should We Ban English NLP for a Year? / Søgaard, Anders.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. p. 5254-5260.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Should We Ban English NLP for a Year?
AU - Søgaard, Anders
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Around two thirds of NLP research at top venues is devoted exclusively to developing technology for speakers of English, most speech data comes from young urban speakers, and most texts used to train language models come from male writers. These biases feed into consumer technologies to widen existing inequality gaps, not only within, but also across, societies. Many have argued that it is almost impossible to mitigate inequality amplification. I argue that, on the contrary, it is quite simple to do so, and that counter-measures would have little-to-no negative impact, except for, perhaps, in the very short term.
AB - Around two thirds of NLP research at top venues is devoted exclusively to developing technology for speakers of English, most speech data comes from young urban speakers, and most texts used to train language models come from male writers. These biases feed into consumer technologies to widen existing inequality gaps, not only within, but also across, societies. Many have argued that it is almost impossible to mitigate inequality amplification. I argue that, on the contrary, it is quite simple to do so, and that counter-measures would have little-to-no negative impact, except for, perhaps, in the very short term.
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M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85149433455
SP - 5254
EP - 5260
BT - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics
T2 - 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022
Y2 - 7 December 2022 through 11 December 2022
ER -
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