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SUMMARY: Farhan Samir LOC colloquium
DESCRIPTION: Linguistics doctoral candidate Farhan Samir will give an LOC c
 olloquium in Swing Space 221 on Friday 29th at 3:30.   Title: Locating Info
 rmation Gaps and Narrative Inconsistencies Across Languages: A Case Study o
 f LGBT People Portrayals on Wikipedia Abstract: Go to any page on Wikipedia
  about a prominent public figure\, and you’ll find that they […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Linguistics doctoral candidate Farhan Sami
 r will give an LOC colloquium in Swing Space 221 on Friday 29th at 3:30.</p
 ><p> </p><div><b>Title</b>: Locating Information Gaps and Narrative Inconsi
 stencies Across Languages: A Case Study of LGBT People Portrayals on Wikipe
 dia</div><div></div><div><b>Abstract</b>: Go to any page on Wikipedia about
  a prominent public figure\, and you'll find that they are written about in
  several languages. Indeed\, Wikipedia has several hundred language edition
 s\, each one maintained by different editor communities. These communities 
 vary in how they might portray a culturally significant public figure. Howe
 ver\, this cross-linguistic variation in content has never been quantified 
 at scale. We introduce the InfoGap method -- an efficient and reliable appr
 oach to locating information gaps and inconsistencies in articles at the fa
 ct level\, across languages. We apply InfoGap to percolate cross-linguistic
  information differences in biographies of LGBT-identifying public figures\
 , where prior content differences had been identified. We find large discre
 pancies in factual coverage across the languages. Moreover\, our analysis r
 eveals that biographical facts carrying negative connotations are more like
 ly to be highlighted in Russian Wikipedia. Crucially\, InfoGap both facilit
 ates large scale analyses\, and pinpoints local document- and fact-level in
 formation gaps\, laying a new foundation for targeted and nuanced comparati
 ve language analysis at scale.</div><div></div><div>The talk will be based 
 on this article published in the <i>Empirical Methods in Natural Language P
 rocessing </i>conference proceedings<i> </i>(2024)<i>: </i><a href="https:/
 /aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.384.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener no
 referrer">https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.384.pdf</a></div>
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