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Steven Bird is professor in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society. He works with speech communities in homelands and diasporas to develop social mobile technologies to support language learning and language revitalisation and maintenance. Steven studied computer science at the University of Melbourne before completing a PhD in computational linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He has conducted fieldwork in West Africa, South America, Central Asia, Melanesia, and Australia. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, Melbourne, and UC Berkeley. He serves as Linguist at the Nawarddeken Academy in West Arnhem. Outside of work Steven runs the Aikuma Project and its primary activity of storytelling in the original languages.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 31 Jan 1991
External positions
Linguist, Nawarddeken Academy
1 May 2017 → …
Research Scientist, International Computer Science Institute, University of California Berkeley
1 Jul 2015 → …
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2020 Rainmaker Readiness: Building Pride and Resilience to Keep Aboriginal Languages Strong
29/07/20 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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DP210100228 Investing in Aboriginal Languages
Bird, S., Christie, M. & Spencer, M.
1/03/21 → 1/03/24
Project: Research
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ILAO1800174 - Mobile Software for Oral Language Learning in Arnhem Land
1/12/18 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Modularised cultural heritage archives - future proofing PARADISEC
Thieberger, A. N., Treloyn , S. & Bird, S.
1/07/22 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
Research output
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Beyond Technological Solutions: How we Create a World that Sustains its Languages
Bird, S., 2022, Linguapax Review 9, p. 167-173.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Learning from failure: Data capture in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Le Ferrand, E., Bird, S. & Besacier, L., 1 Aug 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 4988-4998 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review
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Learning through transcription
Bettinson, M. & Bird, S., May 2022, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. Moeller, S., Anastasopoulos, A., Arppe, A., Chaudhary, A., Harrigan, A., Holden, J., Lachler, J., Palmer, A., Rijhwani, S. & Schwartz, L. (eds.). 1 ed. Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 83-92 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review
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Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios
Bird, S., May 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Muresan, S., Nakov, P. & Villavicencio, A. (eds.). Pennsylvania: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 7817–7829 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review
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Phonology
Bird, S. & Heinz, J., 16 Jun 2022, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Mitkov, R. (ed.). 2 ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, (Oxford Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review