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

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cs.CL2023★ 4 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

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…

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…

cs.CL2021

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…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

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…

cs.CL2020★ 11 cited

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…

cs.CL2019★ 14 cited

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…