Ethical Issues in Language Resources and Language Technology – New Challenges, New Perspectives

Pawel Kamocki, Andreas Witt


Abstract
This article elaborates on the author’s contribution to the previous edition of the LREC conference, in which they proposed a tentative taxonomy of ethical issues that affect Language Resources (LRs) and Language Technology (LT) at the various stages of their lifecycle (conception, creation, use and evaluation). The proposed taxonomy was built around the following ethical principles: Privacy, Property, Equality, Transparency and Freedom. In this article, the authors would like to: 1) examine whether and how this taxonomy stood the test of time, in light of the recent developments in the legal framework and popularisation of Large Language Models (LLMs); 2) provide some details and a tentative checklist on how the taxonomy can be applied in practice; and 3) develop the taxonomy by adding new principles (Accountability; Risk Anticipation and Limitation; Reliability and Limited Confidence), to address the technological developments in LLMs and the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act.
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2024.legal-1.4
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Ingo Siegert, Khalid Choukri
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LEGAL | WS
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ELRA and ICCL
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19–23
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Pawel Kamocki and Andreas Witt. 2024. Ethical Issues in Language Resources and Language Technology – New Challenges, New Perspectives. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 19–23, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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