The State of Multilingual AI There are around 7,000 languages spoken around the world. Around 400 languages have more than 1M speakers and around 1,200 languages have more than 100k ... Reviewing papers published at ACL 2008, she found that 63% of all papers focused on English. For a recent study, we similarly reviewed papers from ACL 2021 and found that almost 70% of papers only evaluate on English. 10 years on, little thus seems to have changed. by Sebastian Ruder: * Status Quo; * Recent Progress; * Challenges and Opportunities; https://ruder.io/state-of-multilingual-ai/