"This paper discusses the challenges in engaging with oral societies and developing locally appropriate language technologies. It is deeply original and raises a number of fundamental questions for the field." – citation for my paper with Dean Yibarbuk 🎉🥳aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long…

🗓️La journée scientifique #éthique et #TAL : 10 ans après aura lieu le 2 avril au Loria. Avec notamment : @[email protected] on Mastodon, Steven Bird 🍉 et Alexis Michaud. 📌Programme et inscriptions : atala.org/content/ethiqu… CNRS Sciences informatiques CNRS Centre-Est Université Lorraine Centre Inria de l'Université de Lorraine Karën Fort (she/her)

Creating a World that Sustains its Languages, 3pm Tuesday 26 March SOAS University of London soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97710402593?…

If your language technology work concerns written language processing for a language endowed with a standardised orthography, please make this explicit, e.g. "written language processing". Let's remember that 90% are "oral languages", or "languages with primary orality" #LT4All

What a stimulating time with the folks from rime with lots of talk about NLP, speech synthesis, ethics and indigenous languages

Indian authorities have authorized the prosecution of prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy, who is facing charges under India’s abusive counterterrorism law. The Indian government has routinely used the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act to silence critics.

Must NLP be extractive? In this ACL'24 paper I call for a re-examination of the nature of language, linguistic diversity, and human communication, and point to an emerging Third Wave NLP: "Relational Language Processing". bit.ly/bird-must-nlp-…

Looks like a groundswell here!

How might we envision NLP for *intercultural* climate communication? Please see our paper at the forthcoming ClimateNLP workshop: openreview.net/pdf?id=LIraXyx… #nlproc #acl2024 #ClimateNLP @ClimateNLP ACL SIGEL C3NLP

One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong … And needs to be “removed” Preferably by force.

Keeping Indigenous languages strong in northern Australia: a PhD opportunity at Charles Darwin University, under First Nations leadership. We have a $40k/year domestic scholarship. Please send expressions of interest to [email protected].

Voices of Australian First Nations leaders concerning climate communication, and some learnings for technologies for indigenous languages. Our #ClimateNLP paper plus 10 minute intro video. aclanthology.org/2024.climatenl… bit.ly/bird-climatenl… ACL SIGEL C3NLP #SIGUL #SIGEL #LT4All