Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)

SUNIPA DEV ; VINODKUMAR PRABHAKARAN; DIRK HOVY; DAVID ADELANI; LUCIANA BENOTTI

Association for Computational Linguistics

Año: 2023 p. 120

978-1-959429-51-7

Human behavior is inherently shaped by the cultural contexts humans are embedded in, the values and beliefs they hold, and the social practices they follow, part of which will be reflected in the data used to train NLP models, and the behavior these NLP models exhibit. Not accounting for this factor could cause incongruencies and misalignments between the cultural contexts that underpin the NLP model development process and the multi-cultural ecosystems they are expected to operate in. These misalignments may result in various harms, including barriers to those from under-represented cultures, violating cultural norms and values, and erasure of cultural knowledge.