A highlight from #EMNLP2021 fascinating keynote by @StevenBird:
NLP often comes with a set of assumptions about what are the needs of communities with low-resource languages. But we need to learn what they *actually* need, they may have a completely different epistemology.
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NLP often comes with a set of assumptions about what are the needs of communities with low-resource languages. But we need to learn what they *actually* need, they may have a completely different epistemology.
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AR: this is such a thought-provoking talk, pointing at the missing bridges between language tech and social sciences, esp. anthropology. As a computational linguist lucky to spend a year in @CPH_SODAS - I still don't think I even see the depth of everything we're missing.
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An audience question (@bonadossou from @MasakhaneNLP?): how do we increase the volume of NLP research on low-resource languages when such work is not as incentivized?
@StevenBird: keep submitting. I've had many rejections. Theme track for ACL2022 will be language diversity.
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@StevenBird: keep submitting. I've had many rejections. Theme track for ACL2022 will be language diversity.
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On that topic: I'm deeply grateful to @WiNLPWorkshop for inviting me to the panel on the role of peer review in diversifying #NLProc. The panel will be on Thursday (Nov 11th), 1pm Punta Cana.
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