Language (technology) is power: A critical survey of" bias" in nlp

SL Blodgett, S Barocas, H Daumé III… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We survey 146 papers analyzing" bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are
often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that …

The necropolitics of language oppression

G Roche - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This article explores how language oppression—coerced language loss—contributes to
physical death. The context for this investigation is the ongoing crisis of global linguistic …

Biology and Cultural Importance of the Narwhal

MT Nweeia - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Though narwhal have survived multiple ice ages, including 2.5 Ma and the last interglacial
period with warming temperatures, Arctic climate change during the Anthropocene …

International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics

AE Davis, R Gamble, G Roche… - Australian Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines international relations (IR)'s approach to the Himalaya. We argue that
the possibility of violent conflict over contested international borders is not the region's …

Indigenous youth and decolonial futures: Energy and environmentalism among the Diné in the Navajo Nation and the Lepchas of Sikkim, India

MD Gergan, A Curley - Antipode, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In India and the United States, Lepcha and Diné youth are articulating decolonial
futures that diverge from past aspirations. Rather than demanding big infrastructure such as …

Sociolinguistically driven approaches for just natural language processing

SL Blodgett - 2021 - scholarworks.umass.edu
Natural language processing (NLP) systems are now ubiquitous. Yet the benefits of these
language technologies do not accrue evenly to all users, and indeed they can be harmful; …

Beyond the front yard: The dehumanizing message of accent-altering technology

AL Payne, T Austin, AM Clemons - Applied Linguistics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Over the past decade, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, as it relates to the speech and
voice recognition industry, has established itself as a multibillion-dollar global market, but at …

Lexical necropolitics: The raciolinguistics of language oppression on the Tibetan margins of Chineseness

G Roche - Language & Communication, 2021 - Elsevier
This article aims to expand raciolinguistic theory to examine the issue of language
oppression, ie, enforced language loss. I used Foucauldian theories of race and racism to …

Why ai is weird and should not be this way: Towards ai for everyone, with everyone, by everyone

R Mihalcea, O Ignat, L Bai, A Borah, L Chiruzzo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a vision for creating AI systems that are inclusive at every stage of
development, from data collection to model design and evaluation. We address key …

Fewer, better pathways for all? Intersectional impacts of rural school consolidation in China's minority regions

E Hannum, F Wang - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Primary school consolidation—the closure of small community schools or their mergers into
larger, better-resourced schools—is emerging as a significant policy response to changing …