Tools based on natural language processing and artificial intelligence, such as recommendation systems on social media, automatic translators, and voice assistants, are now part of our daily lives, both in personal and professional contexts.
These technologies rely on the representation of linguistic knowledge, the research object of a discipline often little known outside its narrow specialist field: Computational Linguistics.
The more pervasive these tools become, the more we take them for granted, without questioning how they were created, how they precisely work, and, above all, what the consequences of their widespread, massive, and largely unconscious use might be. more info here.
Ludovica Pannitto, University of Trento
Malvina Nissim, University of Trento