Steven Bird

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Steven Bird

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3782-7733

Registered to supervise postgraduate research

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1988 …2024

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Over the past three decades, Steven Bird has been working with minoritised people groups in Africa, Melanesia, Amazonia, and Australia, and exploring how people keep their oral languages and cultures strong. He has held academic appointments at Edinburgh, UPenn, Berkeley, and Melbourne. Steven established the ACL Anthology, the Open Language Archives Community and the Natural Language Toolkit, and is past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Since 2017 he has been research professor at Charles Darwin University, where he collaborates with Indigenous leaders and directs the Top End Language Lab, http://language-lab.cdu.edu.au. Steven pursues other language-related projects at http://aikuma.org.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 31 Jan 1991

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  • Centering the Speech Community

    Bird, S. & Yibarbuk, D., 2024, EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. Graham, Y., Purver, M. & Purver, M. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 1. p. 826-839 14 p. (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; vol. 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review

    8 Citations (Scopus)

  • Envisioning NLP for Intercultural Climate Communication

    Bird, S., Aquino, A. & Gumbula, I. M., Jun 2024, ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop. Stammbach, D., Ni, J., Schimanski, T., Dutia, K., Singh, A., Bingler, J., Christiaen, C., Kushwaha, N., Muccione, V., Vaghefi, S. A. & Leippold, M. (eds.). 1 ed. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 111-122 12 p. (ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review

    Open Access
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    1 Citation (Scopus)
    43 Downloads (Pure)

  • Must NLP be Extractive?

    Bird, S., Aug 2024, Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. F. T. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Bangkok: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 1. p. 14915-14929 15 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; vol. 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review

    Open Access
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    2 Citations (Scopus)
    233 Downloads (Pure)

  • Understanding how language revitalisation works: A realist synthesis

    Wiltshire, B., Bird, S. & Hardwick, R., 2024, In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 45, 9, p. 3946-3962 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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    8 Citations (Scopus)
    210 Downloads (Pure)

  • What's the weather story? Both-ways learning in Indigenous-led climate communication workshops in northern Australia

    Aquino, A. A., Gumbula, I. M., Bidwell, N. & Bird, S., Aug 2024, PDC '24: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2024: Exploratory Papers and Workshops. D'Andrea, V., de Paula, R. A., Rodil, K., Lamas, D., Goagoses, N., Kambunga, A. P., Tan Yong Wen, D., Del Gaudio, C., Jensen, M. Y., Winschiers-Theophilus, H. & Zaman, T. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 2. p. 166-174 9 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; vol. 2).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review

    Open Access
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    1 Citation (Scopus)
    40 Downloads (Pure)

  • A Finite State Aproach to Interactive Transcription

    Lane, W. & Bird, S., 1 Oct 2022, Proceedings of the first workshop on NLP applications to field linguistics. Gyeongju: International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Vol. 29. p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › peer-review

    Open Access
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    114 Downloads (Pure)

  • 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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    924 Downloads (Pure)
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  • Zampolli Prize

    Bird, S. (Recipient), 2022

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