Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios

Steven Bird

doi:10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.539

Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios

Steven Bird

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.539
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!

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Conference	60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated title	ACL2022
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	22/05/22 → 27/05/22
Internet address	https://www.2022.aclweb.org/#:~:text=Welcome%20everyone%20to%20ACL%202022,many%20as%20possible%20in%20Dublin!

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Bird, S 2022, Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios. in S Muresan, P Nakov & A Villavicencio (eds), Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Pennsylvania, pp. 7817–7829, 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland, 22/05/22. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.539

Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios. / Bird, Steven.

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). ed. / Smaranda Muresan; Preslav Nakov; Aline Villavicencio. Pennsylvania : Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022. p. 7817–7829.

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