This paper is a critical reflection on the epistemic culture of contemporary computational linguistics, framed in the context of its growing obsession with tables with numbers. We argue against tables with numbers on the basis of their epistemic irrelevance, their environmental impact, their role in enabling and exacerbating social inequalities, and their deep ties to commercial applications and profit-driven research. We substantiate our arguments with empirical evidence drawn from a meta-analysis of computational linguistics research over the last decade.

翻译：本文是对当代计算语言学认知文化的批判性反思，其论述框架建立在该领域日益沉迷于数字表格的语境之上。我们基于数字表格在认知层面的无关性、其环境影响、其在助长并加剧社会不平等中的作用，以及其与商业应用及利益驱动研究的深层关联，对数字表格提出批判。我们通过对过去十年计算语言学研究的元分析所获得的实证证据，为上述论点提供了实质支撑。