Impoverished Language Technology: Social Class in NLP

Since the foundational work of William Labov on the social stratification of language, linguistics has made concentrated efforts to explore the links between socio-demographic characteristics and language production and perception. But while there is strong evidence for socio-demographic characteristics in language, they are infrequently used in Natural Language Processing (NLP …

Thinking About Harms, Offensiveness and Hate Speech

Natural language processing research has begun to embrace the notion of annotator subjec- tivity, motivated by variations in labelling. This approach understands each annotator’s view as valid, which can be highly suitable for tasks that embed subjectivity, e.g., sentiment analysis. However, this construction may be inappropriate for tasks …

Penelope: Emotions in NLP

In this multidisciplinary project we bring together philosophy, psychology and NLP to explore emotion analysis and related tasks in NLP. So far, we conducted a survey of the field in recent years, focusing in particular in the types of frameworks used in NLP research. We also showed that Large Language …

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