Papers by Benjamin Rosman
The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | 'low resource' languages are understudied by the NLP community, while 'high resource' is referred to as 'achieved', while high-resource languages are referred . |
| Approach: | They qualitatively analyzed 150 papers from the ACL Anthology and popular speech-processing conferences that mention the keyword ‘low-resource. |
| Outcome: | The proposed analysis reveals that several interacting axes contribute to ‘low-resourceness’ of a language and why that makes it difficult to track progress for each individual language. |
The Esethu Framework: Reimagining Sustainable Dataset Governance and Curation for Low-Resource Languages (2025.acl-long)
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Jenalea Rajab, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Dale Dunbar, Graham Morrissey, Fadel Thior, Luandrie Potgieter, Jessica Ojo, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Wilhelmina NdapewaOnyothi Nekoto, Pelonomi Moiloa, Jade Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Benjamin Rosman
| Challenge: | Esethu Framework is a community-centric data license that empowers local communities and ensures equitable benefit-sharing from their linguistic resource. |
| Approach: | They propose a community-centric data license to empower local communities and ensure equitable benefit-sharing from their linguistic resource. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains read speech from native isiXhosa speakers enriched with demographic and linguistic metadata. |