自然语言处理(NLP)的社会影响日益重要,学界对NLP社会公益(NLP for Social Good, NLP4SG)相关倡议的关注度持续上升。事实上,近年来ACL文集中近20%的论文涉及联合国可持续发展目标所定义的社会公益相关主题(Adauto等人,2023)。本研究从作者和会议/期刊层面描绘NLP4SG的研究图景,量化ACL社区内外、由ACL核心贡献者与非ACL作者开展的社会公益相关研究的占比。通过该方法,我们发现了NLP4SG研究领域两个出人意料的事实:第一,ACL作者在ACL以外的 venues 发表论文时,开展社会公益相关研究的概率显著更高;第二,绝大多数运用NLP技术解决社会公益问题的论文,是由非ACL作者在ACL以外的 venues 发表的。我们讨论了这些发现对ACL社区制定NLP4SG相关议程的启示。
英文摘要:
The social impact of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is increasingly important, with a rising community focus on initiatives related to NLP for Social Good (NLP4SG). Indeed, in recent years, almost 20% of all papers in the ACL Anthology address topics related to social good as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Adauto et al., 2023). In this study, we take an author- and venue-level perspective to map the landscape of NLP4SG, quantifying the proportion of work addressing social good concerns both within and beyond the ACL community, by both core ACL contributors and non-ACL authors. With this approach we discover two surprising facts about the landscape of NLP4SG. First, ACL authors are dramatically more likely to do work addressing social good concerns when publishing in venues outside of ACL. Second, the vast majority of publications using NLP techniques to address concerns of social good are done by non-ACL authors in venues outside of ACL. We discuss the implications of these findings on agenda-setting considerations for the ACL community related to NLP4SG.
Yes-Yes-Yes: Proactive Data Collection for ACL Rolling Review and Beyond
Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学);Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI)(黑森人工智能中心)
向公开文本源的转变使语言处理达到了前所未有的规模,但在公共和公开许可的数据稀缺的领域,服务不足。积极主动地收集文本数据用于研究是解决这一不足的可行战略,但缺乏考虑到数据汇集的许多道德、法律和保密方面的系统方法。我们的工作提出了一个案例研究的积极数据汇集在同行评审-一个具有挑战性和资源不足的自然语言处理域。我们概述了主动数据汇集的伦理和法律要求,并介绍了“是-是-是”,第一个基于捐赠的同行评审数据汇集工作流程,满足这些要求。我们报告了ACL Rolling Review中Yes-Yes-Yes的实施情况,并实证研究了主动数据汇集对数据集大小的影响以及同行评审平台上捐赠行为引起的偏差。
Beyond Good Intentions: Reporting the Research Landscape of NLP for Social Good
ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);MPI for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);University of Michigan(密歇根大学);The Hebrew University of Jerusalem(耶路撒冷希伯来大学);Allen Institute for AI (AI2)(艾伦人工智能研究所(AI2))
A survey of diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where and how
France Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN(法国巴黎萨克雷大学,CNRS,LISN);Belgium FNRS - UCLouvain(比利时FNRS - 奥斯迪大学);Israel The Open University of Israel(以色列开放大学);Germany Heidelberg University(德国海德堡大学)
A frame semantic overview of NLP-based information extraction for cancer-related EHR notes
School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston(德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心生物医学信息学院);McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston(德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心麦戈文医学院)
Beyond Text: Leveraging Multi-Task Learning and Cognitive Appraisal Theory for Post-Purchase Intention Analysis
Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学数据科学研究院);Birla Institute of Technology and Science(贝拉理工与科学学院);NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学可信互联网与社区中心)
NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsible Deployment
University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学);University of Michigan-Ann Arbor(密歇根大学安娜堡分校);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);University of North Texas(北卡罗来纳州立大学);Sony Computer Science Laboratories - Paris(索尼计算机科学实验室-巴黎);Santa Clara University(圣克拉拉大学);University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Dataminr(DataMinr公司);United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)(联合国开发计划署);University of Maryland, College Park(马里兰大学学院市分校);Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen(智能系统马克斯·普朗克研究所,图宾根);Vector Institute(向量研究所);University of Toronto(多伦多大学);University of Washington(华盛顿大学);Queen Mary University of London(伦敦大学玛丽女王学院);IIT Kharagpur(印度理工学院Kharagpur分校);University of California San Diego(加州大学圣地亚哥分校);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);LMU Munich(慕尼黑大学);Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)(慕尼黑机器学习中心);University of Alicante(阿利坎特大学);University of Michigan-Flint(密歇根大学弗林特分校);University of Southern California(南加州大学);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑技术大学)