Abstract:While applications of machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) methods have grown in the social sciences within diverse international contexts, these methods remain inherently Eurocentric and strikingly challenging to apply to non-European languages. There is an urgent need for decolonial reconstructions of ML and NLP applications within the social sciences, particularly in meaningfully reconfigured applications of ML and NLP to non-Western contexts. Endeavoring to answer such a cogent calli… Show more
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