In September 2020 I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #MultilingualResearch.https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

Update. "Too often, scientific research in any language other than English is automatically seen as second tier, with little consideration for the quality of the work itself. This harmful prejudice ignores the work of those involved, especially in the humanities and social sciences. It also profoundly undermines the global academic community’s ability to share knowledge with society."
https://theconversation.com/english-dominates-scientific-research-heres-how-we-can-fix-it-and-why-it-matters-226198

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. Results of two surveys of authors whose first language is not English, mostly from China, on the use of #AI tools to publish in English-language journals. "The top reported use cases for AI tools were grammar corrections/proofreading, rewriting, translation, and drafting abstracts/lay summaries."
https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/ai-what-the-future-holds/

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. Wonderful project. "Climate Cardinals is a youth-led nonprofit that’s accomplished quite a bit with almost no funding: translating 2 million words in four years to make scientific literature more accessible to non-English speakers." #Google just gave the project $400k.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2024/04/22/climate-cardinals-plans-to-double-its-science-translation-efforts-with-new-google-backing

#Climate #Translation

Update. This new study follows up on three recommendations from #COAR on #multilingualism in #repositories — "[1] declaring the language(s) of the resource and…its #metadata, [2] writing personal name/s using the writing system used in the deposited document while providing a persistent identifier to disambiguate author/s…and…[3] enabling UTF-8 support so as to promote use of the original alphabet / the writing system whenever possible."
https://zenodo.org/records/11060284

#GreenOA #PIDs

Update. Next week the Public Knowledge Project and the U of Alberta Library are hosting a conference on #OpenAccess #multilingual publishing.
https://ualberta.libcal.com/event/3797697

Update. "This paper presents the challenges language ideological research still faces despite ongoing efforts to tackle #multilingualism and offers possible solutions for language ideological research to become truly inclusive."
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eujal-2024-0006/html

Update. "Chinese-language journal editors expressed a lack of motivation to adopt #OpenAccess, unless there is a reform in the mechanism of academic publishing or a policy is imposed. On the other hand, the English-language journal editors [in #China] acknowledged that they have no other choice but to adopt open access."
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/12/1/1

h/t @hannaSH

Update. "The #Translations and #OpenScience project explores the potential of technology-aided translation to help produce and disseminate research in multiple languages."
https://zenodo.org/records/10972986

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "This study explores Chinese early career returnee academics’ motivations for writing and publishing in English."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-02846-4

#China #ECRs #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "We first introduce #translingualism and #ELF [English as a lingua franca] as equally legitimate multilingual theories. Next, we identify [their similarities and differences]…Finally, we lay out a vision for how this transdisciplinary, collaborative dialogue can help realize more equitable #multilingualism."
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eduling-2023-0012/html

#MultilingualResearch

Update. Recent work on #AI summaries is mostly monolingual, focusing on English. "In this paper, we consequently explore how state-of-the-art neural abstract summarization models based on a multilingual encoder–decoder architecture can be used to enable cross-lingual extreme summaries of scholarly texts."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00799-023-00373-2

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "This paper analyses the attitudes of Polish linguists towards English for research publication…[The dominance of English contributes] to the sense of disadvantage associated primarily with manifold costs incurred by publishing in English."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1475158524000717
(#paywalled)

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. From 670 #OpenAccess journals published in #Africa, "only 57 journals allow publication in languages other than English [#LOTE]. From these journals, between 2010 and 2020, only 26 articles appeared in an African language. The Google Scholar site reports the highest citation for articles written in the aforementioned African languages is one."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790718.2024.2369172

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "Linguistic hegemony and language bias…can pose significant threats to the scientific community, as language morphs from being a tool of communication and exchange to becoming an obstacle. Consequently, the broader scientific community misses out on knowledge generated by non-English-speaking researchers, and these researchers, in turn, face the injustice of unequal access to the broader audience that only high-impact journals can reach."
https://criticalcarescience.org/wp-content/plugins/xml-to-html/include/lens/index.php?xml=2965-2774-ccsci-36-e20240084en.xml&lang=en

#Multilingualism

Update. "Multilingual Data Science: Ten Tips to Translate Science and Tech Content"
https://datasciencebydesign.org/blog/multilingual-data-science

One nice tip I haven't seen before: If you write a glossary to accompany your research, make it a bilingual or multilingual glossary.

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "The preeminence of English as the lingua franca in global science has led to English-dominant publication practices, even in non-English-speaking countries. We examine the complex dynamics of language use in scientific publications in #China…The findings underscore the risk of underestimating China’s scientific output by only counting English-language publications."
https://academic.oup.com/rev/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvae036/7746712

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "Tony Liddicoat shows that English-language research publications about #multilingualism are by and large a monolingual affair…I expand on Liddicoat's quantitative findings…Specific aspects of…English-monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism…include perceptions of multilingualism as generic and context-free; as characteristic of the present; and as constituted in textual products rather than processes of production and reception."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921

Update. "This emphasis of publishing in 'international' (i.e., English-language) journals has multiple consequences for non-native English speakers, including problems with having the quality of their English reviewed over the academic content of their work and
limited access to scientific research for those who do not speak English."
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/4847/

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. The new issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (Vol 27, No 1) is devoted to Multilingual Publishing and Scholarship.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/262/info/

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. Sorry I didn't see this sooner. Yesterday #COARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) hosted a webinar on #multilingualism and language biases in research #assessment.
https://vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/coara-wg-webinar-multilingualism-and-language-biases-research-assessment

#MultilingualResearch