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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Task Preferences across Languages on Community Question Answering Platforms
Sebastin Santy, Prasanta Bhattacharya, Rishabh Mehrotra
With the steady emergence of community question answering (CQA) platforms like Quora, StackExchange, and WikiHow, users now have an unprecedented access to information on various k…
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…
Use of Formal Ethical Reviews in NLP Literature: Historical Trends and Current Practices
Sebastin Santy, Anku Rani, Monojit Choudhury
Ethical aspects of research in language technologies have received much attention recently. It is a standard practice to get a study involving human subjects reviewed and approved…
A Discussion on Building Practical NLP Leaderboards: The Case of Machine Translation
Sebastin Santy, Prasanta Bhattacharya
Recent advances in AI and ML applications have benefited from rapid progress in NLP research. Leaderboards have emerged as a popular mechanism to track and accelerate progress in N…
Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: A Case-Study on Gondi
Devansh Mehta, Sebastin Santy, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal +7
The primary obstacle to developing technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of usable data. In this paper, we report the adoption and deployment of 4 technology-driven m…
The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World
Pratik Joshi, Sebastin Santy, Amar Budhiraja +2
Language technologies contribute to promoting multilingualism and linguistic diversity around the world. However, only a very small number of the over 7000 languages of the world a…
Unsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities
Pratik Joshi, Christain Barnes, Sebastin Santy +7
In this paper, we examine and analyze the challenges associated with developing and introducing language technologies to low-resource language communities. While doing so, we bring…
Towards Task Understanding in Visual Settings
Sebastin Santy, Wazeer Zulfikar, Rishabh Mehrotra +1
We consider the problem of understanding real world tasks depicted in visual images. While most existing image captioning methods excel in producing natural language descriptions o…