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27 Jan 2025
I have decided to leave Twitter/X. For other ways to connect with me please visit: linktr.ee/stevenbird
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8 Dec 2024
Language Technology and the Metacrisis, my recent talk at Australasian Language Technology Workshop @altanlp youtube.com/watch?v=YcU_tZIeβ¦
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13 Nov 2024
As published in TheArticle, βthe only publication committed to covering every angleβ, ho ho ho π Has anyone published a scholarly response to Wifedom?
18 Sep 2023
"Eileen may be invisible to the deliberately blind Funder, but everyone else can see her quite clearly."
Jeffrey Meyers reads 'Wifedom' by Anna Funder.
thearticle.com/in-defence-ofβ¦
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22 Oct 2024
Last week I spoke at #CLARIN2024 on language technologies and the metacrisis, suggesting alternatives to the popular βhallucinating plagiarism machinesβ. These scalable methods and design patterns centre human agency, capacity, and diversity. Watch here:
youtube.com/watch?v=tX8yYpE7β¦
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Steven Bird π retweeted
17 Oct 2024
On the final day of #CLARIN2024, @StevenBird gave a highly interesting and thought-provoking keynote speech on the "metacrisis": the crises of language, environment and meaning, and how our community should respond to this π‘
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17 Oct 2024
In his Keynote at #CLARIN2024, Steven Bird @StevenBird explores ramifications for our work in the space of language resources & technologies, and suggests some ways forward that avoid extractive processes & centre speech communities, to 'Making it Meaningful'.
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5 Oct 2024
I proposed the ACL Anthology at the ACL exec meeting at ACL'01 in Toulouse in response for a call for proposals for a 40th anniversary initiative for ACL'02. I offered to build it with the support of @LDCupenn plus donations, on condition that it would be freely available.
The interesting part of this question as I see it, though, is how we avoided the paywall that encumbers so many other sites in EE and CS. Was it just fortune, or some inherent quality in our community?
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5 Oct 2024
One challenge was that the late 1970s editions of our journal _Computational Linguistics_ were only published on microfiche. The NSF sponsorship to the ACL was conditional on this arrangement, to bring forward the day when every scholar would have a personal microfiche reader π
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5 Oct 2024
I got the idea at SIGMOD'99 where registration included all past papers from SIGMOD, VLDB, and other conferences in the "SIGMOD Anthology". I had been living in West Africa and experienced inequities of access... I wanted ours to be a society that made its content free to all.
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30 Aug 2024
Thus, there are various ways of thinking about what language *is*. These are reflected in how we approach language technologies. The first wave and second waves of symbolic and subsymbolic NLP are familiar. I believe a third wave is emerging: Relational Language Processing.
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30 Aug 2024
For more of this story, please watch the 10 minute intro video, or dive into my ACL'24 paper "Must NLP be Extractive?"
bit.ly/bird-must-nlp-be-extrβ¦
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30 Aug 2024
When we do this, something interesting comes up: relationality. Language is intrinsically social. Language is inseparable from culture, society, or nature. Language both reflects and creates context. This exceeds notions of language as lexicogrammatical code, or sequence data.
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30 Aug 2024
To ask this question is to return to a fork in the road at the genesis of AI, between Artificial Intelligence (McCarthy) and Augmentative Intelligence (Engelbart). Is our agenda to replicate human intelligence inside a machine or expand human intelligence using machines as tools?
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30 Aug 2024
It is instructive to look at Indigenous societies, who are guarding their agency in the face of relentless pressures from outside, enacting their sovereignty in shaping their lives, landscapes, and languages. We who increasingly cede our agency to AI may have something to learn.
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30 Aug 2024
Artificial Intelligence extracts behavioural data and takes over human agency. Augmentative Intelligence carefully enhances human agency. What would it be like to take this other fork, and seek a path towards a non-extractive NLP committed to augmentative solutions?
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30 Aug 2024
Big Tech promises a future with universal translation, where "people will be able to make more authentic connections in their native languages". This is the picture: human communication hostage to the machine; biases and hallucinations so hard to detect cross-culturally. π§΅1/8
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30 Aug 2024
Can we imagine a future where language technologies *amplify* the capacity of humans to function across cultures? This is the picture: language learning enhancing human agency; technology in support of situated and embodied social interaction, i.e. *natural* language processing.
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26 Aug 2024
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.climat⦠bit.ly/bird-climatenlp24-env⦠@acl_sigel @c3_nlp #SIGUL #SIGEL #LT4All
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