Dr. Blasi’s research goal is threefold. First, to quantitatively characterize the mismatch between the (often economically and politically dominant) languages in which language-based resources are produced and the ones where they are applied, across scientific and technological fields and aided by large databases of scientific publications and patents. Second, to deploy computational models to inform, plan and estimate the cross-linguistic generalizability of any given resource as dependent on the languages in which it was conceived and evaluated. Third, to promote a critical dialogue across society, academia and industry on the mostly silent but ubiquitous consequences of this systematic bias induced by large and powerful languages in the production of resources.
