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Steven Bird

Professor

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

Registered to supervise postgraduate research

1988 …2022

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  • 2013

    The International Workshop on Language Preservation: An Experiment in Text Collection and Language Technology

    Bird, S., Chiang, D., Frowein, F., Berez, A. L., Eby, M., Hanke, F., Shelby, R., Vaswani, A. & Wan, A., 2013, In: Language Documentation and Conservation. 7, p. 155-167 13 p.

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

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  • 2012

    Fangorn: A system for querying very large treebanks

    Ghodke, S. & Bird, S., 2012, Proceedings of COLING 2012: Demonstration Papers. p. 175-182 8 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Machine translation for language preservation

    Bird, S. & Chiang, D., 2012, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. p. 125-134 10 p.

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

  • Phonology

    Bird, S., 18 Sep 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Mitkov, R. (ed.). 1st ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press

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

  • 2011

    A breadth-first representation for tree matching in large scale forest-based translation

    Ghodke, S., Bird, S. & Zhang, R., 2011, Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. p. 785-793 9 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Bootstrapping the language archive: New prospects for natural language processing in preserving linguistic heritage

    Bird, S., 2011, In: Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. 6, 4, p. 1-16 16 p.

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

  • Collective classification of Congressional floor-debate transcripts

    Burfoot, C., Bird, S. & Baldwin, T., 1 Dec 2011, ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. p. 1506-1515 10 p. (ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies; vol. 1).

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

    Open Access

  • Documenting Prosodic Systems on the Fly: A case study with Usarufa

    Bird, S., 2011, p. 1-7, 7 p.

    Research output: Working paper

  • Equipping university students to document their ancestral languages

    Bird, S., Sai, A., Tama, P. & Kamene, S., 2011.

    Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper presented at Conference (not in Proceedings) › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Mining Language Resources from Institutional Repositories

    Simons, G. F., Bird, S., Hirt, C., Hou, J. & Pedersen, S., 2011, Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2011. p. 230-231 2 p.

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

  • Normalising audio transcriptions for unwritten languages

    Foda, A. & Bird, S., 2011, Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. p. 527-535 9 p.

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

    Open Access

  • The Big Australian Speech Corpus (the Big ASC)

    Wagner, M., Tran, D., Togneri, R., Rose, P., Powers, D., Onslow, M., Loakes, D., Lewis, T., Kuratate, T., Kinoshita, Y., Kemp, N., Ishihara, S., Ingram, J., Hajek, J., Grayden, D., Göcke, R., Fletcher, J., Estival, D., Epps, J., Dale, R., & 11 othersCutler, A., Cox, F., Chetty, G., Cassidy, S., Butcher, A., Burnham, D., Bird, S., Best, C., Bennamoun, M., Arciuli, J. & Ambikairajah, E., 2011, SST 2010, Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. p. 166-170 5 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Towards a data model for the universal corpus

    Abney, S. & Bird, S., 2011, Proceedings of the 4th workshop on building and using comparable corpora: Comparable corpora and the web. p. 120-127 8 p.

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

    Open Access
  • 2010

    A scalable method for preserving oral literature from small languages

    Bird, S., 16 Aug 2010, Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change - 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2010, Proceedings. Chowdhury, G., Koo, C. & Hunter, J. (eds.). Springer Nature, p. 5-14 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6102 LNCS).

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

  • Fast query for large treebanks

    Ghodke, S. & Bird, S., 1 Dec 2010, NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference. p. 267-275 9 p. (NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference).

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

    Open Access

  • Querying linguistic trees

    Lai, C. & Bird, S., Jan 2010, In: Journal of Logic, Language and Information. 19, p. 53-73 21 p., 53.

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

  • The human language project: Building a universal corpus of the world's languages

    Abney, S. & Bird, S., 1 Dec 2010, ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. p. 88-97 10 p. (ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference).

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

    Open Access

  • 入門自然言語処理

    Translated title of the contribution: Natural Language ProcessingBird, S., Klein, E. & Loper, E., 2010, " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".

    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • 2009

    A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus

    Burnham, D., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C. T., Bird, S., Butcher, A. R., Cassidy, S., Chetty, G., Cox, F. M., Cutler, A., Dale, R., Epps, J., Fletcher, J., Goecke, R., Grayden, D., Hajek, J., Ingram, J., Ishihara, S., Kemp, N., & 10 othersKinoshita, Y., Kuratate, T., Lewis, T., Loakes, D., Onslow, M., Powers, D., Rose, P., Togneri, R., Tran, D. & Wagner, M., 2009, Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages. Cascadilla Press, p. 96-107 12 p.

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

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  • Natural language processing and linguistic fieldwork

    Bird, S., 1 Sep 2009, In: Computational Linguistics. 35, 3, p. 469-474 6 p.

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

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  • Natural language processing with Python

    Bird, S., Klein, E. & Loper, E., 2009, " O'Reilly Media, Inc.". 479 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • OLAC: Accessing the world's language resources

    Bird, S. & Simons, G., 2009. 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

    Open Access
  • 2008

    Defining a core body of knowledge for the introductory computational linguistics curriculum

    Bird, S., 2008, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 27-35 9 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Multidisciplinary instruction with the natural language toolkit

    Steven, B., Bird, S., Klein, E., Loper, E. & Baldridge, J., 2008, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics (TeachCL-08. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 62-70 9 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Querying linguistic annotations

    Ghodke, S. & Bird, S., 1 Dec 2008, ADCS 2008: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium. McArthur, R., Thomas, P., Turpin, A. & Wu, M. (eds.). RMIT University Press, p. 69-72 4 p.

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

    Open Access

  • The ACL Anthology reference corpus: A reference dataset for bibliographic research in computational linguistics

    Bird, S., Dale, R., Dorr, B. J., Gibson, B., Joseph, M. T., Kan, M. Y., Lee, D., Powley, B., Radev, D. R. & Tan, Y. F., 1 Jan 2008, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1755-1759 5 p. (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008).

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

    Open Access

  • Toward a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources

    Simons, G. F. & Bird, S., 1 Dec 2008, Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 22. De la Salle University, p. 87-100 14 p.

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

    Open Access
  • 2007

    Dynamic path prediction and recommendation in a museum environment

    Grieser, K., Baldwin, T. & Bird, S., Jun 2007, Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007).. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 49-56 8 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Graphical query for linguistic treebanks

    Bird, S. & Lee, H., 2007, Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics. p. 22-30 9 p.

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

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  • Managing fieldwork data with toolbox and the natural language toolkit

    Robinson, S., Aumann, G. & Bird, S., 2007, In: Language Documentation and Conservation. 1, 1, p. 44-57 14 p.

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

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  • 2006

    Analysis and prediction of user behaviour in a museum environment

    Grieser, K., Baldwin, T. & Bird, S., 2006, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop. Australasian Language Technology Association, p. 157-158 2 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Building a search engine to drive problem-based learning

    Bird, S. & Curran, J. R., 1 Dec 2006, Working Group Reports on ITiCSE on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2006. p. 153-157 5 p. (Working Group Reports on ITiCSE on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2006).

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

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  • Collecting Low-Density Language Materials on the Web

    Baldwin, T., Bird, S. & Hughes, B., Dec 2006, Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Web Conference. Southern Cross University

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

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  • Designing and evaluating an XPath dialect for linguistic queries

    Bird, S., Chen, Y., Davidson, S. B., Lee, H. & Zheng, Y., 17 Oct 2006, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE '06. 10 p. 1617420. (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering; vol. 2006).

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

  • NLTK: the natural language toolkit

    Bird, S., 2006, Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions. Sydney, Australia: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 69-72 4 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Reconsidering language identification for written language resources

    Hughes, B., Baldwin, T., Bird, S., Nicholson, J. & MacKinlay, A., 2006, Proceedings, 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 485-488 4 p.

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

    Open Access
  • 2005

    Accessing the spoken word

    Goldman, J., Renals, S., Bird, S., De Jong, F., Federico, M., Fleischhauer, C., Kornbluh, M., Lamel, L., Oard, D. W. & Stewart, C., Aug 2005, In: International Journal on Digital Libraries. 5, 4, p. 287-298 12 p.

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

  • Extending XPath to support linguistic queries

    Bird, S., Chen, Y., B.~Davidson, S., Lee, H. & Zheng, Y., 2005, Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLANX). p. 35-46 12 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Lpath +: A first-order complete language for linguistic tree query

    Lai, C. & Bird, S., 1 Dec 2005, Proceedings of PACLIC 19, the 19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Language, Information and Computation. 12 p.

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

    Open Access

  • NLTK-Lite: efficient scripting for natural language processing

    Bird, S., 2005, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON). Allied Publishers Private Limited, p. 11-18 8 p.

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

    Open Access

  • Structuring documents efficiently

    Marshall, R., Bird, S. & Stuckey, P., 2005, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005. p. 120-126 7 p.

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

    Open Access
  • 2004

    Building an open language archives community on the DC Foundation

    Bird, S. & Simons, G., 2004, Metadata in Practice: a work in progress. Hillmann, D. & Westbrooks, E. (eds.). Chicago: ALA Editions, 14 p.

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

  • Experiments with data-intensive NLP on a computational grid

    Hughes, B., Bird, S., Haejoong, K. & Klein, E., 2004, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Human Language Technology. http://eprints. unimelb. edu. au/archive/00000503. 8 p.

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

  • Functional requirements for an interlinear text editor

    Hughes, B., Bow, C. & Bird, S., 2004, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004. Xavier, M. F., Costa, R., Ferreira, F., Lino, M. T. & Silva, R. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 771-774 4 p. (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004).

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

    Open Access

  • Management of metadata in linguistic fieldwork: Experience from the ACLA project

    Hughes, B., Penton, D., Bird, S., Bow, C., Wigglesworth, G., McConvell, P. & Simpson, J., 2004, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004. Xavier, M. F., Costa, R., Ferreira, F., Lino, M. T. & Silva, R. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 193-196 4 p. (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004).

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

    Open Access

  • Querying and updating treebanks: a critical survey and requirements analysis

    Lai, C. & Bird, S., 2004, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004. p. 139-146 8 p.

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

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  • Representing and rendering linguistic paradigms

    Penton, D. & Bird, S., Dec 2004, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004. p. 123-130 8 p.

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

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  • Securing interpretability: The case of ega language documentation

    Gibbon, D., Bow, C., Bird, S. & Hughes, B., 2004, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004. Xavier, M. F., Costa, R., Ferreira, F., Lino, M. T. & Silva, R. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1369-1372 4 p. (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004).

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

    Open Access

  • TalkBank: Building an open unified multimodal database of communicative interaction

    MacWhinney, B., Bird, S., Cieri, C. & Martell, C., 2004, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004. Xavier, M. F., Costa, R., Ferreira, F., Lino, M. T. & Silva, R. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 525-528 4 p. (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004).

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

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  • Towards a general model of linguistic paradigms

    Penton, D., Bow, C., Bird, SG. & Hughes, B., 2004, 16 p.

    Research output: Working paper