"It's how you do things that matters": Attending to Process to Better Serve Indigenous Communities with Language Technologies

no code implementations • 4 Feb 2024 • Ned Cooper, Courtney Heldreth, Ben Hutchinson

Indigenous languages are historically under-served by Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, but this is changing for some languages with the recent scaling of large multilingual models and an increased focus by the NLP community on endangered languages.

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A Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of Community-Collaborative Approaches to Computing Research

no code implementations • 9 Jul 2022 • Ned Cooper, Tiffanie Horne, Gillian Hayes, Courtney Heldreth, Michal Lahav, Jess Scon Holbrook, Lauren Wilcox

HCI researchers have been gradually shifting attention from individual users to communities when engaging in research, design, and system development.