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

Northern Institute

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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
Title of host publication	ACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (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)	9781955917216
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, ACL 2022 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 22 May 2022 → 27 May 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	0736-587X

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Conference	60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	22/05/22 → 27/05/22

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

Bird, Steven. / Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios. ACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers). editor / Smaranda Muresan ; Preslav Nakov ; Aline Villavicencio. Pennsylvania : Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022. pp. 7817–7829 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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

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