On Tables with Numbers, with Numbers
This paper is a critical reflection on the epistemic culture of contemporary computational linguistics, framed in the context of its growing obsession with tables with numbers. We argue against tables with numbers on the basis of their epistemic irrelevance, their environmental impact, their role in...
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper is a critical reflection on the epistemic culture of contemporary
computational linguistics, framed in the context of its growing obsession with
tables with numbers. We argue against tables with numbers on the basis of their
epistemic irrelevance, their environmental impact, their role in enabling and
exacerbating social inequalities, and their deep ties to commercial
applications and profit-driven research. We substantiate our arguments with
empirical evidence drawn from a meta-analysis of computational linguistics
research over the last decade. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2408.06062 |