_Supporting and Performing Culture from the Inside_, my EMNLP Findings paper with @lea-frermann.bsky.social. We apply the emic/etic distinction to NLP, covering task selection, data, system design, and evaluation. We suggest some ways towards a more culturally-attuned NLP. arxiv.org/abs/2609.32281
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Supporting and Performing Culture from the Inside
Anthropology and related disciplines which study culture have often found it useful to consider their epistemological and methodological approaches in terms of emic versus etic. This is the distinctio...
