Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Part of the Best Data Science Student Course Projects: Finalist Competition
Spring 2021
The Columbia Language Justice Perspectives Project
The act of translation in all forms is one of beauty and tension, but machine translation is a true double-edged sword that can either protect or endanger digital multilingual experiences in the fight for language justice. The Columbia Language Justice Perspectives Project presents these nuanced global stakes of equity in translation through an interactive map that contextualizes multilingual reflections and indicates the discrepancies in Google Translate technology. Considerations of language justice and translation should be engaging and accessible; however, they also should hold machine translation technologies accountable to meeting the needs of language communities.
Team Members: Nikita Desir; Kyra Ann Dawkins
Part of the Best Data Science Student Course Projects: Finalist Competition
Spring 2021
The Columbia Language Justice Perspectives Project
The act of translation in all forms is one of beauty and tension, but machine translation is a true double-edged sword that can either protect or endanger digital multilingual experiences in the fight for language justice. The Columbia Language Justice Perspectives Project presents these nuanced global stakes of equity in translation through an interactive map that contextualizes multilingual reflections and indicates the discrepancies in Google Translate technology. Considerations of language justice and translation should be engaging and accessible; however, they also should hold machine translation technologies accountable to meeting the needs of language communities.
Team Members: Nikita Desir; Kyra Ann Dawkins
