Thank you Domenico. I had missed this, and I appreciate you sharing it with this list. It should definitely be within our interests; particularly as machine learning and AI become more and more intertwined with information seeking behaviour and search... the biases are of course not just linguistic, but infrastructural and political too... (often simply declaring them from the outset could be a meaningful gesture...)

All the best

Ernesto

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Domenico Fiormonte < domenico.fiormonte@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

Humanist subscribers on this list may have seen already my message in reply to the launch of the new EPI Search engine ( http://isce-library.net/epi.aspx). Basically, I was discussing the implicit (and undeclared) linguistic bias of this tool, and I gave few examples. As I did not get any reply from ISCE, and the examples were expunged from the Humanist email, I decided to republish my reflection on our blog:

http://infolet.it/2016/04/06/search-engine-without-a-difference/

Hope it will help others to reflect on the profound epistemic and cultural consequences of these instruments.

All the best

Domenico

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