@inproceedings{cerecer-2026-measuring,
    title = "Measuring Semantic Flow Without Direction: A Rhizomatic Protocol for Stereotype Translation in Cross-Cultural Language Technology",
    author = "Cerecer, Gustavo Avi{\~n}a",
    editor = "Ma, Weicheng  and
      Vosoughi, Soroush  and
      Gillani, Nabeel  and
      Coto-Solano, Rolando",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Stereotypes Across Cultures in Language Technologies ({S}tere{AC}u{LT} 2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.stereacult-1.8/",
    pages = "79--87",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-408-8",
    abstract = "We present an open-source measurement protocol for stereotype interpretation that quantifies how users translate or interprets provocative discourse without assuming a normative direction. Building on Deleuze and Guattari{'}s rhizomatic framework, we operationalize three modes of semantic movement {---}Reaffirm, De-signify, and Escape (RDE){---} through an abstract-machine operator detector that combines transparent linguistic patterns (526 patterns across 8 languages) with optional contextual embeddings. The protocol is direction-agnostic: it measures equally well a user who reproduces their own semantic territory and one who departs from it, capturing diasporic, assimilationist, and escape trajectories that English-centric, Chomskyan-hierarchical taxonomies obscure. We demonstrate the protocol on five extreme user profiles (Russian conservative, Russian diaspora, trans Russian exile, Mexican malinchista, Mapuche speaker), each producing coherent and distinct RDE signatures. Deployed in a free-tier web service, the protocol enables both individual reflective use and corporate calibration of tolerable territoriality ranges for personnel engaged in intercultural translation and interpretation tasks."
}