"Where the data are coming from?" Ethics, crowdsourcing and traceability for Big Data in Human Language Technology

Gilles Adda (1, 2) , Laurent Besacier (3) , Alain Couillault (4) , Karen Fort (5) , Joseph Mariani (1, 2) , Hugues de Mazancourt (6)

1 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
2 IMMI - Institut des Technologies Multilingues et Multimédias de l'Information
3 GETALP - Groupe d’Étude en Traduction Automatique/Traitement Automatisé des Langues et de la Parole
4 L3I - Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction - EA 2118
5 SEMAGRAMME - Semantic Analysis of Natural Language
6 Lingway Labs

Based on the experience gained on the observation of the corpora developement in HLT, the authors want to warn the Big Data community about some recent usage of hu-man computation. For instance, the growing use in the HLT community of crowdsourcing methods, and especially of microworking retributed crowsourcing platforms, lead to many ethical, economical and juridical concerns. The au-thors want also to foster some behaviours, especially con-cerning traceability, implemented in the form of a charter, the Ethics and Big Data Charter .

Mots clés: Ethics; crowdsourcing; traceability

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document

Gilles Adda, Laurent Besacier, Alain Couillault, Karen Fort, Joseph Mariani, et al.. "Where the data are coming from?" Ethics, crowdsourcing and traceability for Big Data in Human Language Technology. Crowdsourcing and human computation multidisciplinary workshop, CNRS, Sep 2014, Paris, France. ⟨hal-01078045⟩