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Overview

Steven Bird is affiliated with Charles Darwin University in Australia and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Linguistics and Language, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Cultural Studies.

Bird's work addresses a variety of topics, notably Natural Language Processing Techniques, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, ICT in Developing Communities, Multilingual Education and Policy, Language and Cultural Evolution, Speech and Dialogue Systems, and Library Science and Information Systems.

Among recent publications, Bird has contributed to the following:

  • "Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios" (2022), published in the Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • "Sparse Transcription" (2020), published in Computational Linguistics

Additional recent works in which Bird is involved include:

  • "We are reconciliators": When Indigenous tourism begins with agency (2021), Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • "Understanding how language revitalisation works: a realist synthesis" (2022), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • "Learning From Failure: Data Capture in an Australian Aboriginal Community" (2022), Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Steven Bird frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among whom are Éric Le Ferrand, Laurent Besacier, Gary Simons, Margaret Samuels-Kalow, and Michael Gottlieb. The number of joint works ranges from two to three collaborations with these individuals.

The primary venues for Bird's publications include:

  • Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Computational Linguistics

Best Publications

  • Natural Language Processing with Python

    Steven Bird;Steven Bird;Ewan Klein;Edward Loper

  • NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit

    Steven Bird

  • NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit

    Edward Loper;Steven Bird

  • A formal framework for linguistic annotation

    Steven Bird;Mark Liberman

  • Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description

    Steven Bird;Steven Bird;Gary Simons

  • Low Resource Dependency Parsing: Cross-lingual Parameter Sharing in a Neural Network Parser

    Long Duong;Trevor Cohn;Steven Bird;Paul Cook

  • The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics

    Steven Bird;Robert Dale;Bonnie J. Dorr;Bryan R. Gibson

  • One-level phonology: autosegmental representations and rules as finite automata

    Steven Bird;T. Mark Ellison

  • Computational Phonology: A Constraint-Based Approach

    Steven Bird

  • Aikuma: A Mobile App for Collaborative Language Documentation

    Steven Bird;Florian R. Hanke;Oliver Adams;Haejoong Lee

  • An attentional model for speech translation without transcription

    Long Duong;Antonios Anastasopoulos;David Chiang;Steven Bird;Steven Bird

  • ATLAS: A Flexible and Extensible Architecture for Linguistic Annotation

    Steven Bird;David Day;John S. Garofolo;John Henderson

  • Phonological analysis in typed feature systems

    Steven Bird;Ewan Klein

  • Constraint-based phonology

    Steven Bird

  • Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Language Modeling

    Oliver Adams;Adam J. Makarucha;Graham Neubig;Steven Bird

  • Learning Crosslingual Word Embeddings without Bilingual Corpora

    Long Duong;Hiroshi Kanayama;Tengfei Ma;Steven Bird

  • Decolonising Speech and Language Technology

    Steven Bird

  • Reconsidering language identification for written language resources

    Baden Hughes;Timothy Baldwin;Steven Bird;Jeremy Nicholson

  • Key aspects of declarative phonology

    James M Scobbie;John S Coleman;Steven Bird

  • Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems

    Steven Bird

  • A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation (revised version)

    Steven Bird;Mark Liberman

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor Cohn
Trevor Cohn University of Melbourne
Mark Liberman
Mark Liberman University of Pennsylvania
Graham Neubig
Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University
Timothy Baldwin
Timothy Baldwin University of Melbourne
Ewan Klein
Ewan Klein University of Edinburgh
Mark Onslow
Mark Onslow University of Technology Sydney
Robert Dale
Robert Dale Macquarie University
David Chiang
David Chiang University of Notre Dame
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories

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