The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World
Table 7: Cosine Distance between conference vectors and mean class vectors of languages.
['[BOLD] Conf / Class', '[BOLD] 0', '[BOLD] 1', '[BOLD] 2', '[BOLD] 3', '[BOLD] 4', '[BOLD] 5 ']
To quantify this analysis, we compute the cosine distance between the conference vector and the mean of the vector each category of the taxonomy. and we see a very similar trend that while ACL is an at average distance of 0.291 from category 5 languages, its almost more than double far away from category 2. There is also a very steep rise in distance of the ACL vector from category 4 to category 3. In fact, similar trends are visible for other ACL related conferences including EACL, NAACL, EMNLP and TACL. The trend for category 0 languages seems somewhat different than the usual trend is this table, probably because of the large number of languages in this category as well as the sparsity in papers.