Abstract
How can language technology address the diverse situations of the world's languages? In one view, languages exist on a resource continuum and the challenge is to scale existing solutions, bringing under-resourced languages into the high-resource world. In another view, presented here, the world's language ecology includes standardised languages, local languages, and contact languages. These are often subsumed under the label of `under-resourced languages' even though they have distinct functions and prospects. I explore this position and propose some ecologically-aware language technology agendas.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) |
Editors | Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio |
Place of Publication | Pennsylvania |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 7817–7829 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-955917-21-6 |
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Publication status | Published - May 2022 |
Event | 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 22 May 2022 → 27 May 2022 https://www.2022.aclweb.org/#:~:text=Welcome%20everyone%20to%20ACL%202022,many%20as%20possible%20in%20Dublin! |
Conference
Conference | 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
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Abbreviated title | ACL2022 |
Country/Territory | Ireland |
City | Dublin |
Period | 22/05/22 → 27/05/22 |
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