The Ethical Question – Use of Indigenous Corpora for Large Language Models (2024.lrec-main)
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Linda Wiechetek, Flammie A. Pirinen, Børre Gaup, Trond Trosterud, Maja Lisa Kappfjell, Sjur Moshagen
| Challenge: | Creating language technology based on language data is becoming more popular . indigenous language resources are not comparable in that they would encode the most recent normativised language . |
| Approach: | They describe an ethical way to work with indigenous languages based on language data . they say data driven methods make assumptions based upon majority languages they work with . authors say data-driven methods are not ethical or beneficial . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is ethical and sustainable, and can be applied to indigenous languages in an ethical way. |
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