Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2024) at EACL 2024
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is an important agenda across every field throughout the world. Language as a major part of communication should be inclusive and treat everyone with equality. Today’s large internet community uses language technology (LT) and has a direct impact on people across the globe. EDI is crucial to ensure everyone is valued and included, so it is necessary to build LT that serves this purpose. Recent results have shown that big data and deep learning are entrenching existing biases and that some algorithms are even naturally biased due to problems such as ‘regression to the mode’. Our focus is on creating LT that will be more inclusive of gender, racial, sexual orientation, persons with disability. The workshop will focus on creating speech and language technology to address EDI not only in English, but also in less resourced languages.
The broader objective of LT-EDI-2024 will be
To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for EDI.
To promote research in inclusive LT.
To adopt and adapt appropriate LT models to suit EDI.
To provide opportunities for researchers from the LT community around the world to collaborate with other researchers to identify and propose possible solutions for the challenges of EDI.
Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create LT of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people.
Call for Papers:
Our main theme in this workshop is equality, diversity, and inclusivity in LT. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers reporting on these issues and datasets to avoid these issues. We also encourage qualitative studies related to these issues and how to avoid them. LT-EDI-2024 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submissions on any languages that contribute to research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Data set development to include EDI
Gender inclusivity in LT
LGBTQ+ inclusivity in LT
Racial inclusivity in LT
Persons with disability inclusivity in LT
Speech and language recognition for minority groups
Unconscious bias and how to avoid them in natural language processing, machine learning and other LT technologies.
Tackling rumours and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities.
Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities.
Invited Speaker:
Dirk Hovy
Full Professor in the Computing Sciences, Department of Bocconi University
Scientific director, Data and Marketing Insights research unit.
Organizers
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi
School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland.
Bharathi B
SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Paul Buitelaar
Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland.
Durairaj Thenmozhi
SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
György Kovács
Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
University of Jaén, Spain
Programme Committee
A Ankitha Reddy, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
Abdullatif Koksal, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit ̈at Munchen, Germany
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi
Aleksandar Shtedritski, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Andrei-Cristian Rad, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Anjishnu Mukherjee, George Mason University, Virginia, USA
Ann Maria Thomas, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
Anna Tokareva, Universit ́e de Lorraine, France
Annika Marie Schoene, Institute for Experiential AI Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Antonis Maronikolakis, Computer Science and Information Systems, Ludwig Maximilian Univerity (LMU), Munich, Germany
Anvi Alex, Instituto Polit ́ecnico Nacional, Mexico
Camelia Lemnaru, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Chahat Raj, George Mason University, Virginia, USA
Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University, Denmark
Daniel Garcıa-Baena, Universidad de Jaen, Spain
Daniele Nardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Davide Venditti, Universit`a degli studi Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Dhiman Goswami, George Mason University, Virginia, USA
Divya Chaudhary, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Doris Dippold, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Durga Prasad Manukonda, ASRlytics, India
Effirul Ramlan, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Universit`a degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Fernanda Gonc ̧alves Abrantes, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Fida Ullah, Instituto Polit ́ecnico Nacional, Mexico
Frank Rudzicz, Dalhousie University, Canada
Heike Zinsmeister, Universit ̈at Hamburg, Germany
Hossein A. Rahmani, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Huimin Xiong, Zhejiang University, China
Inaki San Vicente, Orai NLP Technologies and Elhuyar Fundazioa, Spain
Jakub Pokrywka, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna ́n, Poland
Jin Hao, Stanford University, California, USA
Judith Jeyafreeda Andrew, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Jyothish Lal G, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed University), India
Katharina Suhr, Universit ̈at Stuttgart, Germany
Kaveh Eskandari Miandoab, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts
Kenneth Church, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel, Kongu Engineering College, India
Lars Kloser, Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany
Leonardo Ranaldi, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Mahdi Zakizadeh, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies, Iran
Malliga Subramanian, Kongu Engineering College, India
Marc Tanti, University of Malta, Malta
Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Pisa, Italy
Martin Paul Wessel, Technische Universit ̈at M ̈unchen, Germany
Martina Galletti, Sony Computer Science Lab, France
Md Nishat Raihan, George Mason University, Virginia, USA
Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Instituto Polit ́ecnico Nacional, Mexico
Michael Gira, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Michael Roth, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Miguel Couceiro, Universit ́e de Lorraine, France
Mika Beele, Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany
Moein Shahiki Tash, Instituto Polit ́ecnico Nacional, Mexico
Muhammad Tayyab Zamir, Instituto Polit ́ecnico Nacional, Mexico
Nicholas Deas, Columbia University, New York, USA
Nikilesh Jayaguptha, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
Omer Faruk Yalcin, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, USA
Pedro Ernesto Alonso, Lule ̊a University of Technology, Sweden
Pengrui Han, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA
Peter Brunsgaard Trolle, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pranav Moorthi, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
Priyadharshini T, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India
Rafal Dariusz Kocielnik, California Institute of Technology, California, USA
Rohith Gowtham Kodali, ASRlytics, India
Ruizhe Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, George Mason University, Virginia, USA
Samuel Dooley, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
SangKeun Lee, Korea University, South Korea
Selam Abitte, Instituto Polit ́ecnico Nacional, Mexico
Shanshan Huang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Sidney Gig-Jan Wong, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Tamas Ficsor, University of Szeged, Hungary
Tanmay Basu, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India
Viktor Hangya, The Center for Information and Language Processing, University of Munich, Germany
Viswa M, Resilience Business Grids LLP, India
Xi Wang, University College London, University of London, United Kingdom
Xiangjue Dong, Texas A&M University - College Station, Texas, USA
Yang Feng, Angelalign Tech, China
Yibo Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Zahra Ahani, Instituto Polit ́ecnico Nacional, Mexico
Zi-Yi Dou, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Ziwei Zhu, George Mason University, USA