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Beyond Good Intentions: When Does the Framing of Multilingual and Low-Resource NLP Research Become a Caricature?
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Noopur Zambare, Mohamed Abdalla
Building language technologies and conducting NLP research for low-resource languages---particularly when led by native speakers or involving participatory research practices---are…
SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla +14
We present the first shared task on Semantic Textual Relatedness (STR). While earlier shared tasks primarily focused on semantic similarity, we instead investigate the broader phen…
SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla +24
Exploring and quantifying semantic relatedness is central to representing language and holds significant implications across various NLP tasks. While earlier NLP research primarily…
We are Who We Cite: Bridges of Influence Between Natural Language Processing and Other Academic Fields
Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Mohamed Abdalla +2
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is poised to substantially influence the world. However, significant progress comes hand-in-hand with substantial risks. Addressing them requires…