34.3483, Confs: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights

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Subject: 34.3483, Confs: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI:  Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights

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Date: 17-Nov-2023
From: Nina Hosseini-kivanani [teicai2024 at gmail.com]
Subject: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI:  Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights


Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI:  Language Attitudes,
Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights
Short Title: TEICAI

Date: 21-Mar-2024 - 22-Mar-2024
Location: Radisson Blu, St. Julians, Malta
Contact: Nina Hosseini-Kivanani
Contact Email: teicai2024 at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024/home?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

Conversational language technologies (chatbots, voice assistants, and
multimodal conversational interfaces) are becoming increasingly
complex and common in everyday life. Various language theories (such
as speech act theory, politeness theory, conversation analysis, and
interaction theory) have started influencing their development. At the
same time, the development of these technologies is often driven by
technology-related concerns and tends to overlook users’ needs and
socio-cultural contexts. This, combined with the scarcity of human
rights regulation of AI, raises concerns about linguistic
discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks. In
addition, training data for conversational AI mostly comes from
written rather than interaction-based language data sets and often
does not include gestural, social, and emotional aspects that are
fundamental to human interaction. In the same vein, Sign Language is
rarely facilitated. To promote a positive impact of conversational
technology on linguistic diversity and inclusion, it is imperative to
strike a balance between technological concerns and socially relevant
matters.

Our workshop aims at addressing these issues by using a holistic
approach that involves dialogue and collaboration among technologists,
linguists, policymakers, and communities involved in the development
and commissioning of conversational AI systems.

Possible topics may include:

- Language ideologies in conversational AI
- Language rights in conversational AI
- Socio-cultural context in conversational AI
- Language inclusion in training data for enhancing inclusivity
- Incorporating non-verbal communication elements (gestures, emotions)
in AI
- Sign language and multimodal conversational AI
- Audience design in conversational AI (tailoring systems to meet
specific audiences’ needs and preferences)
- The sense of human agency and identity while interacting with
conversational AI
- Addressing challenges and opportunities of conversational AI
development (case studies, models of effective collaborations)
- Linguistic discrimination in conversational AI
- Perspectives of communities affected by conversational AI systems:
needs, concerns, and expectations

We invite authors to submit original, unpublished work (long, short,
and position papers). Each submission will be reviewed by 2-3 members
of the Programme Committee. Participants should format their
submissions using the EACL template, available for LaTeX/Overleaf and
all submissions must be in PDF format. All accepted papers (long,
short, and position papers) will be included in the workshop
proceedings. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology.


Important dates:

Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023
Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference):
January 17, 2024
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024
Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024
Proceedings due: February 7, 2024
Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024
Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/
For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to
teicai2024 at gmail.com .
You can follow us on LinkedIn (TEICAI) and Twitter (teicai2024) to get
more updates about the workshop.



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