The South Asian American diasporic writer, Jhumpa Lahiri has been widely acclaimed by the first-world intellectuals for her truthful representations of diasporic experience. In recent years, however, some scholars have drawn upon Gayatri Spivak’s notion of “Native Informant” to interrogate the controversial canonization of Lahiri in the West, and point instead to her disavowed participation in ...

In this paper we describe a process for rapid development of semantic analysis grammars for Interlingual Machine Translation. The technique applies to existing systems and can be used to extend coverage into new languages quickly by separating the informant tasks performed by native speakers from the grammar writing tasks performed by engineers familiar with the system. A tool for automatic man...

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) experience a large burden from certain chronic disease-related risk factors. The STRIVE Program funded four AANHPI community-based organizations (CBOs) to implement culturally adapted community gardens and farmers' markets to increase access to healthy foods. Key CBO informant interviews were conducted to understand processes an...

Part of my childhood was spent in Baghdad, Iraq, during the rule Saddam Hussein. At that time, regime offered free and universal education healthcare. Literacy rates country surpassed much Arabic-speaking world and, indeed, Global South. As celebrated Egyptian intellectual, Taha Hussein, famously put it: “Cairo writes; Beirut prints; Baghdad reads.” Booksellers were everywhere Baghdad. Its peop...

Many of the chronic illnesses disproportionately experienced by Native Hawaiians are directly related to poor diets and long-standing obesity beginning in childhood. We report on the findings of in-depth key informant interviews (N=14) that took place in two Native Hawaiian communities as part of a larger, community-based participatory research study that included a community assessment through...

The present research investigated the nature of the inferences and decisions young children make about informants with a prior history of inaccuracies. Across three experiments, 3- and 4-year-olds (total N = 182) reacted to previously inaccurate informants who offered testimony in an object-labeling task. Of central interest was children's willingness to accept information provided by an inaccu...