”It’s how you do things that matters”: Attending to Process to Better Serve Indigenous Communities with Language Technologies (2024.eacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Indigenous languages are historically under-served by natural language processing (NLP) but this is changing with the recent scaling of large multilingual models and an increased focus by the NLP community on endangered languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to build NLP technologies for Indigenous languages that should primarily serve Indigenous communities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is based on interviews with 17 researchers working in or with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities on language technology projects in Australia. |
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