Language varieties of Italy: Technology challenges and opportunities

A Ramponi - Transactions of the Association for Computational …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Italy is characterized by a one-of-a-kind linguistic diversity landscape in Europe, which
implicitly encodes local knowledge, cultural traditions, artistic expressions, and history of its …

Ethical considerations for machine translation of indigenous languages: Giving a voice to the speakers

M Mager, E Mager, K Kann, NT Vu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.19474, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years machine translation has become very successful for high-resource language
pairs. This has also sparked new interest in research on the automatic translation of low …

It's how you do things that matters": Attending to Process to Better Serve Indigenous Communities with Language Technologies

N Cooper, C Heldreth, B Hutchinson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.02639, 2024 - arxiv.org
Indigenous languages are historically under-served by Natural Language Processing (NLP)
technologies, but this is changing for some languages with the recent scaling of large …

Survey of cultural awareness in language models: Text and beyond

S Pawar, J Park, J **, A Arora, J Myung… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large-scale deployment of large language models (LLMs) in various applications, such as
chatbots and virtual assistants, requires LLMs to be culturally sensitive to the user to ensure …

Ethics Whitepaper: Whitepaper on Ethical Research into Large Language Models

EL Ungless, N Vitsakis, Z Talat, J Garforth… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This whitepaper offers an overview of the ethical considerations surrounding research into
or with large language models (LLMs). As LLMs become more integrated into widely used …

What do dialect speakers want? a survey of attitudes towards language technology for german dialects

V Blaschke, C Purschke, H Schütze, B Plank - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Natural language processing (NLP) has largely focused on modelling standardized
languages. More recently, attention has increasingly shifted to local, non-standardized …

Morphological inflection: A reality check

J Kodner, S Payne, S Khalifa, Z Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.15637, 2023 - arxiv.org
Morphological inflection is a popular task in sub-word NLP with both practical and cognitive
applications. For years now, state-of-the-art systems have reported high, but also highly …

Neural machine translation for the indigenous languages of the Americas: An introduction

M Mager, R Bhatnagar, G Neubig, NT Vu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Neural models have drastically advanced state of the art for machine translation (MT)
between high-resource languages. Traditionally, these models rely on large amounts of …

The Only Way is Ethics: A Guide to Ethical Research with Large Language Models

EL Ungless, N Vitsakis, Z Talat, J Garforth… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
There is a significant body of work looking at the ethical considerations of large language
models (LLMs): critiquing tools to measure performance and harms; proposing toolkits to aid …

Modeling the Sacred: Considerations when Using Considerations when Using Religious Texts in Natural Language Processing

B Hutchinson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.14740, 2024 - arxiv.org
This position paper concerns the use of religious texts in Natural Language Processing
(NLP), which is of special interest to the Ethics of NLP. Religious texts are expressions of …