What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs
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In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has given increased attention to the disparity of efforts directed towards high-resource languages over low-resource ones. Efforts to remedy this delta often begin with translations of existing English datasets into other languages. However, this approach ignores that different language communities have different needs. We consider a group of low-resource languages, Creole languages. Creoles are both largely absent from the NLP literature, and also often ignored by society at large due to stigma, despite these languages having sizable and vibrant communities. We demonstrate, through conversations with Creole experts and surveys of Creole-speaking communities, how the things needed from language technology can change dramatically from one language to another, even when the languages are considered to be very similar to each other, as with Creoles. We discuss the prominent themes arising from these conversations, and ultimately demonstrate that useful language technology cannot be built without involving the relevant community.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference |
Editors | Nicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis |
Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Publication date | 2022 |
Pages | 6439-6449 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9791095546726 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 - Marseille, France Duration: 20 Jun 2022 → 25 Jun 2022 |
Conference
Conference | 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 |
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Land | France |
By | Marseille |
Periode | 20/06/2022 → 25/06/2022 |
Sponsor | 3M, Emvista, et al., Google, SADILAR, Vocapia |
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- Creole, low-resource languages, natural language processing
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