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Steven Bird 🍉 retweeted
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 💡
Steven Bird 🍉 retweeted
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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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.
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🗓️La journée scientifique #éthique et #TAL : 10 ans après aura lieu le 2 avril au Loria.
Avec notamment : @emilymbender, @StevenBird et Alexis Michaud.
📌Programme et inscriptions : atala.org/content/ethique-ta…
@CNRSinformatics @CNRS_Centre_Est @Univ_Lorraine @Inria_Nancy @KarnFort1
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☝important thread on the goals of NLP for Local and Indigenous language communities. In our #EACL2024 paper, we consider how to ethically build NLP technologies that serve the needs of Indigenous communities.
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@nedcpr @DrCheldreth
Multilingual NLP has made huge advances recently! But how can NLP better serve Indigenous communities? Our new #EACL2024 paper tackles the important topic of how to work ethically with Indigenous communities on NLP projects.
arxiv.org/abs/2402.02639
@nedcpr @DrCheldreth
#eacl2024
Steven Bird 🍉 retweeted
Language Parties: keeping indigenous languages strong through celebration. Learn about the storytelling format and its social impact: pride, agency, participation, belonging🗣️🎉👏 @ILDecade @Indigenous_Org @InfoLinguapax @indiglang @_FPCC @7000languages
languageparties.org/report-2…
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21 Language Parties in 6 countries! Please check out our 2023 report, including an evaluation of the program and insights into how Language Parties create connection and belonging languageparties.org/report-2… #FirstPeoples #LanguageRevitalization #IndigenousLanguages @UN4Indigenous
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NI PhD @Tereza Hlavackova visited Arrmunbu Child & Family Centre (Gumbalanya, NT) to show kids the #Kunwinjku cards she has created with locals.
Kunwinjku is an endangered language spoken by the Bininj. More pics & info👉🏿bit.ly/KunwinjkuFB
#CDUresearch #PhDwithCDU #PhDlife
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has made an ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative #Budget2023 youtube.com/watch?v=DNxXRigH…
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PhD opportunity on keeping Indigenous languages strong in northern Australia through storytelling, song, social exchange, tourism... under Indigenous leadership. We have a $40k/year domestic scholarship. Please send expressions of interest to [email protected].
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Domestic PhD opportunity at @CDUni:
Keeping Culture Strong: Two-way practices and social exchange in remote Aboriginal communities. Join our team doing groundbreaking research with #FirstNations communities in Australia's Top End seek.com.au/job/59729773 @cdu_ni @TopEnd_STS
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How does language revitalisation work? What contexts and mechanisms are responsible for producing what outcomes, why, and for whom? We survey the literature and share several program theories. @bmacwiltshire @rjlhardwick @stevenbird @cdu_ni @CDUni tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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With more than 5k languages, most of them endangered, we, as the NLP community, need a space in the main conferences to share our findings and progress. Let's hope that the efforts of this year's ACL and AACL will not end in a curious, one-time track.
@ReviewAcl @aclmeeting you are recruiting reviewers and sending out reminders and calling for papers, but we do not yet have the option of signing up or submitting to a language diversity track. I wonder if you are hearing all the calls from our community.
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@ReviewAcl @aclmeeting @NeurIPSConf
We need a language diversity track!
Thx, all people pushing this forward (i.e. @StevenBird @gneubig @kelina1124 @LucianaBenotti @ivanvladimir @davlanade @shrutirij @emilymbender @a11byte @ezesanlasai @anas_ant )! and all our friends!
The long tail of languages is so unbelievably important.
When will we see a track for language diversity?
@naaclmeeting @aclmeeting @emnlpmeeting @eaclmeeting
Steven Bird 🍉 retweeted
The long tail of languages is so unbelievably important.
When will we see a track for language diversity?
@naaclmeeting @aclmeeting @emnlpmeeting @eaclmeeting
We just want to state that the #NLProc community need to care (more) about our languages. Lets push harder to get a established track for language diversity in #NLP conferences. We have the same colonial past as our brothers @MasakhaneNLP . Lets push it together!
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We agree. We need a well established linguistic diversity track across #NLProc conferences. NLP != English or colonial languages
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What is Ethical AI from an Indigenous standpoint? Join us in the Top End Language Lab and work with speakers of Australia's first languages. Deadline for domestic scholarship applications is 31 October 2022. We have extra funding for field-based research. language-lab.cdu.edu.au/stud…
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If African AI/ML researchers are not careful, this new “Open Source” movement championed by the richest global tech companies will become a mechanism for continued exploitation of our human capital and continent… [1/3] 🧵
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‘Enough is enough’ $4.5B Perdaman fertiliser plant will be constructed in the World Heritage nominated #MurujugaNationalPark in #WA. Home to the world’s largest rock art gallery👣& more than 1 million images. Read our story👉🏾 bit.ly/sacredsiteWA
#CDUresearch @CDUni
Steven Bird 🍉 retweeted
Do a PhD with us at CDU on "Keeping Culture Strong: Two-way practices and social exchange in remote Aboriginal communities" combining Ground Up methods with economic sociology, connected with ARC Project "Investing in Aboriginal Languages" @cdu_ni @CDUni language-lab.cdu.edu.au/stud…