📖 Book Notes & Other Readings

Books

Notes from some of the books that I have read recently. Oh, also if you are on Goodreads, let's follow each other? 😋
I have described how I make these notes here in case you are interested!

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Meet the Savarnas
Constructing the pluriverse - the geopolitics of knowledge
Weep Not, Child
Brown saviors and their others - race, caste, labor, and the global politics of help in India
Modernity at large - cultural dimensions of globalization
The Covenant of Water
Doppelganger
The Invisible Empire
AI Snake Oil- What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
💸 Scarcity - Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Why Buddhism is True
Whole Number and Half Truths
Four Thousand Weeks- Time Management for Mortals

Notes from some of my readings

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Racial disparities in automated speech recognition
Meaning Error Rate - ASR domain-specific metric framework
Careless Whisper - Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms
Why Aren’t We NER Yet Artifacts of ASR Errors in Named Entity Recognition in Spontaneous Speech Transcripts
LASER - An LLM-based ASR Scoring and Evaluation Rubric
Semantic Distance - A New Metric for ASR Performance Analysis Towards Spoken Language Understanding
Generating Task-Pertinent sorted Error Lists for Speech Recognition
Recognizing Every Voice - Towards Inclusive ASR for Rural Bhojpuri Women
Vistaar - Diverse Benchmarks and Training Sets for Indian Language ASR
LAHAJA - A Robust Multi-accent Benchmark for Evaluating Hindi ASR Systems
Svarah - Evaluating English ASR Systems on Indian Accents
Survey on Factuality in Large Language Models
Characterizing the Flaws of Image-Based AI-Generated Content
Towards Measuring and Modeling - Culture - in LLMs - A Survey
Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Cultural NLP
Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP - A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
Semantic hierarchies for image annotation - A survey
A framework for evaluating cultural bias and historical misconceptions in LLMs outputs
An Investigation into Value Misalignment in LLM-Generated Texts for Cultural Heritage
What’s so awkward about an awkward silence - Aeon Essays
Ecological validity and cultural sensitivity for outcome research - Issues for the cultural adaptation and development of psychosocial treatments with Hispanics
Societal Alignment Frameworks Can Improve LLM Alignment
Position - Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge
Rethinking Model Evaluation as Narrowing the Socio-Technical Gap
AI and the problem of knowledge collapse
Developing a human-organization-technology fit model for information technology adoption in organizations
Methods for the Design and Evaluation of HCI+NLP Systems
How to do human evaluation - A brief introduction to user studies in NLP
Evaluating Evaluation Metrics - A Framework for Analyzing NLG Evaluation Metrics using Measurement Theory
Evaluating natural language processing systems
The Technology–Organization–Environment Framework
Language Technologies for Low Resource Languages - Sociolinguistic and Multilingual Insights
Cultural Considerations in AI Systems for the Global South - A Systematic Review
Kya family planning after marriage hoti hai - Integrating Cultural Sensitivity in an LLM Chatbot for Reproductive Health
Explainable AI in Practice - Practitioner Perspectives on AI for Social Good and User Engagement in the Global South
Mobile technology and artificial intelligence for improving health literacy among underserved communities
Unsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities
Design Principles for Generative AI Applications
Mapping the Potentials and Limitations of Using Generative AI Technologies to Address Socio-Economic Challenges in LMICs
Generative AI for Community Empowerment - Transforming Livelihood Opportunities in a Rural Indian Village
AI for social good - unlocking the opportunity for positive impact
Adoption of AI-Enabled Tools in Social Development Organizations in India - An Extension of UTAUT Model
Designing AI for Social Good - Seven Essential Factors
A Critical Analysis of The Impact of Digitizing Indigenous Knowledge
A computational analysis of lexical elaboration across languages
The Distribution of Power in Exchange Networks - Theory and Experimental Results
Mixed-initiative interaction
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
The Diffusion of Microfinance
An Experimental Study of Homophily in the Adoption of Health Behavior
Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties
The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks
The Strength of Weak Ties