ACL 2022long63 citations
Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios
Abstract
How can language technology address the diverse situations of the world’s languages? In one view, languages exist on a resource continuum and the challenge is to scale existing solutions, bringing under-resourced languages into the high-resource world. In another view, presented here, the world’s language ecology includes standardised languages, local languages, and contact languages. These are often subsumed under the label of “under-resourced languages” even though they have distinct functions and prospects. I explore this position and propose some ecologically-aware language technology agendas.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{bird-2022-local,
title = "Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios",
author = "Bird, Steven",
editor = "Muresan, Smaranda and
Nakov, Preslav and
Villavicencio, Aline",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.539/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.539",
pages = "7817--7829"
}