Papers by Robert Ridley
Addressing Linguistic Bias through a Contrastive Analysis of Academic Writing in the NLP Domain (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a reviewer’s opinion of the nativeness of expression in an academic paper affects the likelihood of it being accepted for publication. |
| Approach: | They conduct a statistical analysis of paper abstracts from the natural language processing domain to identify how authors from different linguistic backgrounds differ in the lexical, morphological, syntactic and cohesive aspects of their writing. |
| Outcome: | The results suggest that there is potential for linguistic bias in the domain of natural language processing. |