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Record W4403892948 · doi:10.4324/9781003149453-25

Censorship and Language Policy

2024· book-chapter· en· W4403892948 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Denise Merkle

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCensorshipLinguisticsPolitical scienceComputer sciencePhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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This chapter looks at translation and censorship, including the history of obscenity legislation, in Canada and Québec, a province that as a former French colony has a different legal tradition (Civil Code) than the British-influenced federal government of Canada (Common Law). It takes as its starting point Cohen&s;s (2001 : 8) broad definition of censorship: ‘the exclusion of some discourse as a result of a judgment by an authoritative agent based on some ideological predisposition&s; that is used to account for various types of control over interlinguistic discourse in the officially bilingual (English-French) Canadian and (unilingual French) Québec contexts. Examples of censorship examined are the forced linguistic and cultural assimilation of the country&s;s First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, federal and provincial language politics and policies, which attempt to silence French-speaking voices, as well as religious censorship in Québec. The broad overview concludes by encouraging research into the CBC/Radio-Canada and the NFB/ONF; community standards and the role of the public in determining what should be censored; the role of the Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications (1949) and the Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications (1923) on censorship in Canada.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.494
Threshold uncertainty score0.983

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0100.019
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.472
Teacher spread0.395 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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