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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 → 28/01/22
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: Other
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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“We are reconciliators”: When Indigenous tourism begins with agency
Curtin, N. & Bird, S., Mar 2022, In: Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 30, 2-3, p. 461-481 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Computational Model for Interactive Transcription
Lane, W. A., Bettinson, M. & Bird, S., Jun 2021, DaSH-LA 2021 - 2nd Workshop on Data Science with Human-in-the-Loop: Language Advances, Proceedings. Dragut, E., Li, Y., Popa, L. & Vucetic, S. (eds.). 1 ed. USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 105-111 7 p. (DaSH-LA 2021 - 2nd Workshop on Data Science with Human-in-the-Loop: Language Advances, Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review
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Collaborative Fieldwork with Custom Mobile Apps
Bettinson, M. & Bird, S., 2021, In: Language Documentation and Conservation. 15, p. 411-432 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Collaborative transcription in Australian Aboriginal communities
Le Ferrand, E., Bettinson, M., Bird, S. & Besacier, L., 4 Mar 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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