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most citedUnsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities

14 citations · 19 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CY20251 cited

When Incentives Backfire, Data Stops Being Human

Sebastin Santy, Prasanta Bhattacharya, Manoel Horta Ribeiro +2

Progress in AI has relied on human-generated data, from annotator marketplaces to the wider Internet. However, the widespread use of large language models now threatens the quality…

cs.HC2024

BLIP: Facilitating the Exploration of Undesirable Consequences of Digital Technologies

Rock Yuren Pang, Sebastin Santy, René Just +1

Digital technologies have positively transformed society, but they have also led to undesirable consequences not anticipated at the time of design or development. We posit that ins…

cs.CV2024

Multilingual Diversity Improves Vision-Language Representations

Thao Nguyen, Matthew Wallingford, Sebastin Santy +5

Massive web-crawled image-text datasets lay the foundation for recent progress in multimodal learning. These datasets are designed with the goal of training a model to do well on s…

cs.CV2023

Semantic and Expressive Variation in Image Captions Across Languages

Andre Ye, Sebastin Santy, Jena D. Hwang +2

Computer vision often treats human perception as homogeneous: an implicit assumption that visual stimuli are perceived similarly by everyone. This assumption is reflected in the wa…

cs.CL20234 cited

NLPositionality: Characterizing Design Biases of Datasets and Models

Sebastin Santy, Jenny T. Liang, Ronan Le Bras +2

Design biases in NLP systems, such as performance differences for different populations, often stem from their creator's positionality, i.e., views and lived experiences shaped by…

cs.CL2022

Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: Enhancing Information Access in Gondi

Devansh Mehta, Harshita Diddee, Ananya Saxena +8

The primary obstacle to developing technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of representative, usable data. In this paper, we report the deployment of technology-driven…