Steven Bird 🍉
steven-bird.bsky.social
Steven Bird 🍉
@steven-bird.bsky.social
http://linktr.ee/stevenbird

Working with First Nations people who are keeping their ancestral languages strong. Living and working on Larrakia, Bininj, and Miriwoong country. He/they.
ACL terminology:
"Paper" = anything with lots of tables with numbers.
"Position paper" = anything critical or just deeper.

I propose:
"Paper" = intellectual contribution.
"Engineering paper" = anything purely technocratic.
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
We Don't Trust Those Mobiles: critical reflections on generative AI for minoritised languages and new ways forward. Presentation delivered at LT4All (Paris, February 2025) #IndigenousLanguages #firstvoices #NLP #ethics
bit.ly/bird-lt4all-...
bird-lt4all-we-dont-trust-those-mobiles.mp4
bit.ly
March 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Generative AI 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? 🧵(updated from Twitter/X Aug'24) 1/5
January 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Language Technology and the Metacrisis, my keynote presentation at ALTA'24, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcU_...
ALTA 2024 Keynote#2 - Steven Bird, Language Technology and the Metacrisis
YouTube video by ALTA
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM