RT Book, Section
T1 Linguistic injustice in multilingual technologies: the TenTen Corpus Family as a case study
A1 Bordonaba Plou, David
A1 Jreis-Navarro, Laila M.
A2 Viola, Lorella
A2 Spence, Paul
AB The aim of this work is twofold. First, to distinguish a phenomenon that produces a new type of linguistic injustice, “the paradox of Anglocentric multilingualism.” This paradox arises when a multilingual philosophy is pursued in constructing complex systems of analysis in the digital environment; however, these systems imply advantages in the study of English over other languages. The injustice derives from a poor level of precision in the output of a technology when analyzing non-English languages. Second, to contend that multilingual DH should deal with the deficiencies of tools’ performance, in addition to those of the language resources, because this disadvantage makes it difficult for any cross-linguistic study to provide reliable empirical data in dis(proving) linguistic intuitions. To illustrate some of the potential problems derived from the paradox, this work will detail the difficulties we have faced in a cross-linguistic study on color terms, when using the Arabic corpus arTenTen and the Spanish corpus esTenTen in Sketch Engine. We will study the different performances of the tool in Arabic and Spanish, compared to English, to signal the weaknesses of this tool in a multilingual arena, enabling its improvement and enriching the critical and inclusive framework of multilingual DH.
PB Routledge
SN 9781003393696
SN 9781032494173
SN 9781032491943
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129996
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129996
LA eng
NO Bordonaba-Plou, D. y Jreis-Navarro, L.M. (2023) «Linguistic Injustice in Multilingual Technologies: The TenTen Corpus Family as a Case Study», en Multilingual Digital Humanities. Taylor and Francis, pp. 129-144. Disponible en: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003393696-12.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 20 ene 2026