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.
For more of this story, please watch the 10 minute intro video, or dive into my ACL'24 paper "Must NLP be Extractive?" What do you think? Please let me know in the comments. 5/5
bit.ly/bird-must-nl... aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...
January 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
There are other ways of thinking about what language *is*. Our epistemology of language affects 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. 4/5
January 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM