Abstract
A key part of the NLP ethics movement is responsible use of data, but exactly what that means or how it can be best achieved remain unclear. This position paper discusses the core legal and ethical principles for collection and sharing of textual data, and the tensions between them. We propose a potential checklist for responsible data (re-)use that could both standardise the peer review of conference submissions, as well as enable a more in-depth view of published research across the community. Our proposal aims to contribute to the development of a consistent standard for data (re-)use, embraced across NLP conferences.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.findings-emnlp.414
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4821–4833
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.414
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.414
- Cite (ACL):
- Anna Rogers, Timothy Baldwin, and Kobi Leins. 2021. ‘Just What do You Think You’re Doing, Dave?’ A Checklist for Responsible Data Use in NLP. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, pages 4821–4833, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- ‘Just What do You Think You’re Doing, Dave?’ A Checklist for Responsible Data Use in NLP (Rogers et al., Findings 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2021.findings-emnlp.414.pdf