Ethical Considerations for Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages: Giving a Voice to the Speakers (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | In recent years, machine translation has become very successful for high-resource language pairs. |
| Approach: | They conduct interviews with community leaders, teachers, and language activists to shed light on ethical considerations for the automatic translation of Indigenous languages. |
| Outcome: | The results show that the inclusion of native speakers and community members is vital to performing better and more ethical research on Indigenous languages. |
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