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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):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 31 Jan 1991
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2020 Rainmaker Readiness: Building Pride and Resilience to Keep Aboriginal Languages Strong
Bird, S. (Principal Investigator/Chief Investigator A)
29/07/20 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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Aikuma Project: Building Pride and Resilience through Storytelling in Indigenous Languages
Bird, S. (Principal Investigator/Chief Investigator A)
5/09/24 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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DP210100228 Investing in Aboriginal Languages
Bird, S. (Principal Investigator/Chief Investigator A), Christie, M. (Co Investigator/Chief Investigator B), Spencer, M. (Chief Investigator C) & Bednall, J. (Chief Investigator D)
1/03/21 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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DP240101952 First Nations AI: Country, Climate, Communication
Bidwell, N. (Principal Investigator/Chief Investigator A) & Bird, S. (Co Investigator/Chief Investigator B)
1/07/24 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
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ILAO1800174 - Mobile Software for Oral Language Learning in Arnhem Land
Bird, S. (Principal Investigator/Chief Investigator A)
1/12/18 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Modularised cultural heritage archives - future proofing PARADISEC
Thieberger, A. N. (Principal Investigator/Chief Investigator A), Treloyn , S. (Co Investigator/Chief Investigator B) & Bird, S. (Co Investigator/Chief Investigator B)
1/07/22 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
Research output
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Building community for climate action, environmental engagement and nature-based solutions: A university’s social events as experiments
Kachel, U., Pinkerton, J., Zemits, B., Sangha, K., Bird, S. & Pirrie, S., Jun 2025, Book of Abstracts T13 - ESP11 Darwin.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings
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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
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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 AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)26 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
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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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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 AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)31 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 AccessFile74 Downloads (Pure)
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