On Tables with Numbers, with Numbers

Konstantinos Kogkalidis; Stergios Chatzikyriakidis

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On Tables with Numbers, with Numbers

Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis

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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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Volume:: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC 2025)
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Year:: 2025
Address:: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Editors:: Sang Truong, Rifki Afina Putri, Duc Nguyen, Angelina Wang, Daniel Ho, Alice Oh, Sanmi Koyejo
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Konstantinos Kogkalidis and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis. 2025. On Tables with Numbers, with Numbers. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC 2025), pages 104–115, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.