Abstract
How can NLP/AI practitioners engage with oral societies and develop locally appropriate language technologies? We report on our experience of working together over five years in a remote community in the far north of Australia, and how we prototyped simple language technologies to support our collaboration. We navigated different understandings of language, the functional differentiation of institutional vs oral languages, and the distinct technology opportunities for each. Our collaboration unsettled the first author's western framing of language as data for exploitation by machines, and we devised a design pattern that seems better aligned with local interests and aspirations. We call for new collaborations on the design of appropriate technologies for oral languages.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference |
Editors | Yvette Graham, Matthew Purver, Matthew Purver |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 826-839 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Volume | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9798891760882 |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Event | 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 - St. Julian�s, Malta Duration: 17 Mar 2024 → 22 Mar 2024 |
Publication series
Name | EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference |
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Volume | 1 |
Conference
Conference | 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2024 |
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Country/Territory | Malta |
City | St. Julian�s |
Period | 17/03/24 → 22/03/24 |
Bibliographical note
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