Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race
By Fatima van Hattum. 2018
In a context where White Americans will become the “minority” in the United States in 32 years, the editors of Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race argue that scholarship focu...
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- Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “Even after decades of sociolinguistic efforts to legitimize AAE, it continues to be viewed as “bad” English and its speakers continue to be viewed as linguistically inadequate—a view called the deficit perspective (Alim et al., 2016; Rosa and Flores, 2017).”
- HCI Guidelines for Gender Equity and Inclusivity (2020, background): “As has been noted by other scholars [2,34,50], the way that we talk and write about gender is encased in powerful mechanisms for changing perceptions, attitudes, and actions.”
- Dialect Diversity in Text Summarization on Twitter (2020, background): “While the AAE dialect is not necessarily only used by African-Americans, it is primarily associated with them and studies have shown disparate treatment of AAE dialect can lead to racial bias [62, 34].”
- Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education (2019, background): “One can draw a straight line back to historical policies that have devalued cultures, particularly for indigenous populations (Adams, 1995) and descendants of Black slaves (Alim et al., 2016; Lanehart, 1998).”
- Mitigating Gender Bias in Machine Translation with Target Gender Annotations (2020, background): “Findings of social sciences and corpus linguistics, however, indicate various forms of bias in the way humans *First authors with equal contribution. use language (Coates, 1987; Butler, 1990; Fuertes-Olivera, 2007; Rickford, 2016).”