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title = "To Build Our Future, We Must Know Our Past: Contextualizing Paradigm Shifts in Natural Language Processing",
author = "Gururaja, Sireesh and
Bertsch, Amanda and
Na, Clara and
Widder, David and
Strubell, Emma",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.822",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.822",
pages = "13310--13325",
abstract = "NLP is in a period of disruptive change that is impacting our methodologies, funding sources, and public perception. In this work, we seek to understand how to shape our future by better understanding our past. We study factors that shape NLP as a field, including culture, incentives, and infrastructure by conducting long-form interviews with 26 NLP researchers of varying seniority, research area, institution, and social identity. Our interviewees identify cyclical patterns in the field, as well as new shifts without historical parallel, including changes in benchmark culture and software infrastructure. We complement this discussion with quantitative analysis of citation, authorship, and language use in the ACL Anthology over time. We conclude by discussing shared visions, concerns, and hopes for the future of NLP. We hope that this study of our field{'}s past and present can prompt informed discussion of our community{'}s implicit norms and more deliberate action to consciously shape the future.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T To Build Our Future, We Must Know Our Past: Contextualizing Paradigm Shifts in Natural Language Processing
%A Gururaja, Sireesh
%A Bertsch, Amanda
%A Na, Clara
%A Widder, David
%A Strubell, Emma
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F gururaja-etal-2023-build
%X NLP is in a period of disruptive change that is impacting our methodologies, funding sources, and public perception. In this work, we seek to understand how to shape our future by better understanding our past. We study factors that shape NLP as a field, including culture, incentives, and infrastructure by conducting long-form interviews with 26 NLP researchers of varying seniority, research area, institution, and social identity. Our interviewees identify cyclical patterns in the field, as well as new shifts without historical parallel, including changes in benchmark culture and software infrastructure. We complement this discussion with quantitative analysis of citation, authorship, and language use in the ACL Anthology over time. We conclude by discussing shared visions, concerns, and hopes for the future of NLP. We hope that this study of our field’s past and present can prompt informed discussion of our community’s implicit norms and more deliberate action to consciously shape the future.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.822
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.822
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.822
%P 13310-13325
Markdown (Informal)
[To Build Our Future, We Must Know Our Past: Contextualizing Paradigm Shifts in Natural Language Processing](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.822) (Gururaja et al., EMNLP 2023)
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