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📝 Editorial: No Language Left Behind
Natural language understanding (NLU) is the area of deep learning that has seen the most impressive breakthroughs in recent years. However, most of the large-scale NLU models that impressed us are regularly optimized for a small set of high-resource languages. NLU models that exhibit remarkable performance in areas such as question answering, text completion and machine translation in languages like English, Spanish or French struggle when applied to hundreds of dialects that don’t possess large training datasets. The result is that there is growing inequality among the segments of the world population that can benefit from high-quality NLU solutions. This disparity is even more apparent for languages spoken outside Europe and North America.
