Steven Bird

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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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  • Conference Paper published in Proceedings

    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. Pennsylvania: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 83-92 10 p. (COMPUTEL 2022 - 5th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, Proceedings of the Workshop).

    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, ACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers). Muresan, S., Nakov, P. & Villavicencio, A. (eds.). Pennsylvania: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 7817–7829 13 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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  • Local Word Discovery for Interactive Transcription

    Lane, W. A. & Bird, S., Nov 2021, EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 2058-2067 10 p. (EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings).

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

  • Low resource dependency parsing: Cross-lingual parameter sharing in a neural network parser

    Duong, L., Cohn, T., Bird, S. & Cook, P., Jul 2015, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing : Proceedings of the Conference: Volume 2: Short Papers. Beijing, China: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 2. p. 845-850 6 p.

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

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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

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  • Many uses, many annotations for large speech corpora: Switchboard and TDT as case studies

    Graff, D. & Bird, S., 2000, 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000. 7 p.

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

  • 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

  • Models and tools for collaborative annotation

    Ma, X., Lee, H., Bird, S. & Maeda, K., 2002, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002. p. 2066-2073 8 p.

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

  • 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

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  • Multilingual training of crosslingual word embeddings

    Duong, L., Kanayama, H., Ma, T., Bird, S. & Cohn, T., 1 Jul 2017, Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers. Lapata, M., Blunsom, P. & Koller, A. (eds.). Pennsylvania: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 1. p. 894-904 11 p.

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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Phone Based Keyword Spotting for Transcribing Very Low Resource Languages

    Le Ferrand, E., Bird, S. & Besacier, L., Dec 2021, Proceedings of the The 19th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association. Rahimi, A., Lane, W. & Zuccon, G. (eds.). Australia: Australasian Language Technology Association, p. 79-86 8 p.

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

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  • 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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  • Querying databases of annotated speech

    Cassidy, S. & Bird, S., 2000, Proceedings - 11th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2000. Orlowska, M. E. (ed.). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 12-20 9 p. 819808. (Proceedings - 11th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2000).

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

  • 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

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  • 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

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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

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  • Simpler unsupervised POS tagging with bilingual projections

    Duong, L., Cook, P., Bird, S. & Pecina, P., 2013, Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Fung, P. & Poesio, M. (eds.). Sofia, Bulgaria: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 2. p. 634-639 6 p.

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

  • 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

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  • TableTrans, MultiTrans, InterTrans and TreeTrans: Diverse tools built on the annotation graph toolkit

    Bird, S., Maeda, K., Ma, X., Lee, H., Randall, B. & Zayat, S., 2002, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002. p. 364-370 7 p.

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

  • 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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  • Teaching computer science in the Victorian certificate of education: A pilot study

    Cox, R., Bird, S. & Meyer, B., 8 Mar 2017, SIGCSE 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 1 ed. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 135-140 6 p.

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

  • 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

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  • The annotation graph toolkit: software components for building linguistic annotation tools

    Maeda, K., Bird, S., Ma, X. & Lee, H., 2001, Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research. p. 1-6 6 p.

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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • The OLAC metadata set and controlled vocabularies

    Bird, S. & Simons, G., 2001, Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources-Volume 15. p. 7-18 12 p.

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

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  • The open language archives community

    Bird, S., Uszkoreit, H. & Simons, G., 1 Jan 2002, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002. 2 p.

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

  • The open language archives community and Asian language resources

    Bird, S., Simons, G. & Huang, C-R., 2001, Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Resources in Asia, 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium. 9 p.

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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Towards a formal framework for linguistic annotations

    Bird, S. & Liberman, M., 1998, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. 12 p.

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

  • Towards a general model of interlinear text

    Bow, C., Hughes, B. & Bird, S., 2003, Proceedings of EMELD 2003. 47 p.

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

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  • Towards an agenda for open language archiving

    Bird, S. & Simons, G. F., 2021, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021. Robinson, S. (ed.). 1 ed. Texas: University of North Texas Libraries, p. 25-28 3 p.

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

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  • Towards a query language for annotation graphs

    Bird, S., Buneman, P. & Tan, W. C., 1 Jan 2000, 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000.

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

  • Towards a robust morphological analyser for Kunwinjku

    Lane, W. & Bird, S., 2019, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association. Mistica, M., Piccardi, M. & MacKinlay, A. (eds.). 1 ed. Australia: Australasian Language Technology Association, p. 1-9 9 p.

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

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  • Transcribing with annotation graphs

    Geoffrois, E., Barras, C., Bird, S. & Wu, Z., 1 Jan 2000, 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000. 5 p.

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

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  • What can we get from 1000 tokens? A case study of multilingual pos tagging for resource-poor languages

    Duong, L., Cohn, T., Verspoor, K., Bird, S. & Cook, P., 1 Jan 2014, EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Doha, Qatar: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 886-897 12 p.

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

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  • White paper on establishing an infrastructure for open language archiving

    Bird, S. & Simons, G., 2000, Workshop on Web-Based Language Documentation and Description, Philadelphia, PA. p. 12-15 4 p.

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

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  • Other

    OLAC: Accessing the world's language resources

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

    Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

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  • Poster

    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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  • Review article

    Presenting autosegmental phonology

    Bird, S., Mar 1991, In: Journal of Linguistics. 27, 1, p. 193-210 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description

    Bird, S. & Simons, G., 1 Dec 2003, In: Language. 79, 3, p. 557-582 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

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  • Textual Creative Work - ERA-eligible

    Requirements on the Infrastructure for Open Language Archiving

    Simons, G. & Bird, S., 2000

    Research output: Other contribution - including Text-based ERA-eligible Creative Works › Textual Creative Work - ERA-eligible › peer-review

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  • Working paper

    A four-level model for interlinear text

    Bow, C., Hughes, B. & Bird, SG., 2003, 26 p.

    Research output: Working paper