Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3ABS6ANV3B" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:BS6ANV3B - isvavai.cz</a>
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00631" target="_blank" >10.1162/tacl_a_00631</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities
Original language description
Italy is characterized by a one-of-a-kind linguistic diversity landscape in Europe, which implicitly encodes local knowledge, cultural traditions, artistic expressions, and history of its speakers. However, most local languages and dialects in Italy are at risk of disappearing within a few generations. The NLP community has recently begun to engage with endangered languages, including those of Italy. Yet, most efforts assume that these varieties are under-resourced language monoliths with an established written form and homogeneous functions and needs, and thus highly inter-changeable with each other and with high-resource, standardized languages. In this paper, we introduce the linguistic context of Italy and challenge the default machine-centric assump-tions of NLP for Italy’s language varieties. We advocate for a shift in the paradigm from machine-centric to speaker-centric NLP, and provide recommendations and opportunities for work that prioritizes languages and their speakers over technological advances. To fa-cilitate the process, we finally propose building a local community towards responsible, participatory efforts aimed at supporting vitality of languages and dialects of Italy. © 2024 Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN
2307-387X
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2024
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
19-38
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85183106662