Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85183106662&doi=10.1162%2ftacl_a_00631&partnerID=40&md5=5fd390866f4b5c7a3a773b2d6e79c1d7" target="_blank" >https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85183106662&doi=10.1162%2ftacl_a_00631&partnerID=40&md5=5fd390866f4b5c7a3a773b2d6e79c1d7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00631" target="_blank" >10.1162/tacl_a_00631</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

ISSN

2307-387X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

12

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2024

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

19-38

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85183106662