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Photos by page
- Home page (top): Museum visitors leaning on a rail to look at the Rosetta Stone, a dark inscribed slab displayed at an angle. Photo: Rick Dikeman, Rosetta-stone-display-in-1985.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
- Bias in NLP: Where It Comes From, How It Is Measured and What Helps: Two women programmers set up the wiring panels of the room-sized ENIAC computer in a black-and-white photograph. Photo: Unidentified U.S. Army photographer, Reprogramming ENIAC.png (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Dataset Licences for NLP: Creative Commons, Open Data Commons and the EU Rules: Rows upon rows of stacked boxes of punched record cards filling a large warehouse floor. Photo: US National Archives, IBM card storage.NARA.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Datasheets, Data Statements and Model Cards: Documenting NLP Data and Models: An old bound laboratory logbook lying open on a desk, its handwritten pages yellowed and stained. Photo: Daderot, Lab book - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - DSC08822.JPG (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Language Technology in Europe: 24 Official Languages and the Digital Divide: A street at the entrance of a small town with half-timbered houses, a banner over the road and a stone gate bearing a bilingual sign. Photo: Ulamm, S-Jean-Pied-de-P Donibane.png (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- How NLP Models Are Evaluated: Benchmarks, Metrics and Their Blind Spots: A yellow tape measure marked in feet and centimetres lying on a wooden floor next to two copper coins. Photo: Stilfehler, Measuring Tape Inch+CM.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- GDPR and Text Data: Personal Data in NLP Corpora and Models: A rusty metal hasp and padlock fastening a weathered red wooden door. Photo: Estormiz, Padlock Valimokatu Oulu 20250307 01.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
- How Tokenization Works: Words, Subwords and Bytes in NLP: Close-up black-and-white photograph of round typewriter keys arranged in staggered rows. Photo: Ralph Steiner (Clarence H. White School of Photography), Typewriter keys LCCN2004666344.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Low-Resource Languages in NLP: What "Low-Resource" Means and What Works: A wooden printer's type case full of metal type pieces for the Cherokee syllabary, scattered in its compartments. Photo: National Trails Office (US National Park Service), Historic Cherokee printing press letters at New Echota in Gordon County, Georgia (9fb7abb0-05d3-415b-a671-839f2fd5505a).JPG (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Machine Translation Evaluation: BLEU, chrF, COMET and Human Judgement: Two men wearing headphones sit at a desk with microphones and an amplifier, working as interpreters in a black-and-white photograph. Photo: Unknown author, German War Crimes Trials. Nuernberg & Dachau - NARA - 292602 (cropped).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Machine Translation for Tenants Moving Abroad: What Works and What to Check: A row of three-storey brick apartment houses with bay windows and small rental signs in the windows, in an old black-and-white photograph. Photo: Unknown author, Residential buildings with "For Rent" signs on an unidentified street.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Bases: WordNets, BabelNet and Wikidata Explained: The domed main reading room of the Library of Congress, with concentric rings of desks around a central circulation desk. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, LOC Main Reading Room Highsmith.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Parallel Corpora: How Translated Text Trains Machine Translation: A printed notice taped to a glass door announcing holiday closing dates in English, with a greeting in Basque below. Photo: Terfili, Basque notice in Boise, Idaho.JPG (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Reproducibility in NLP: Why Results Fail to Repeat and How to Fix It: Two handwritten pages of a nineteenth-century laboratory notebook with a small sketch of apparatus and dated entries. Photo: Alexander Graham Bell, AGBell Notebook.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
- Web-Scraped Corpora: Copyright, Consent and Opt-Outs in NLP: A server rack packed with stacked machines, blue status displays and bundles of white network cables. Photo: Derrick Coetzee, Rear of rack at NERSC data center - closeup.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
- What Makes a Language Model "Open"? Weights, Data, Code and Licences: A technician in a checked shirt crouches with a laptop in front of an open server rack in a data centre. Photo: Derrick Coetzee, Technician with laptop working on server rack at NERSC.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
- Word Sense Disambiguation: How Machines Decide What a Word Means: A metal drawer full of index cards from a card catalogue, resting on a wooden table. Photo: Michael Holley, Copyright Card Catalog Drawer.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
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