SomosNLP at NeurIPS: Building Principles for Inclusive Spanish & Portuguese NLP

SomosNLP at NeurIPS: Building Principles for Inclusive Spanish & Portuguese NLP This social aims to create a space for academic and technical reflection on the challenges of developing Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages beyond English, with a special focus on Spanish and Portuguese. We propose a forum to debate methodological, conceptual, and practical tensions, specifically: • How benchmarks and datasets shape progress in non-English NLP. • What biases and omissions today’s AI ecosystem imposes. • What strategies can advance inclusive, multilingual NLP. • How to navigate tensions between industry-driven approaches (fast, large-scale, performance-oriented) and community/academia-driven approaches (careful, linguistically grounded). The event aligns with NeurIPS’ mission by broadening participation, fostering diversity, and enabling global collaboration across academia, industry, and community-driven initiatives.