We are excited to announce one of our newest projects – Investing in Aboriginal Languages – an ARC project in collaboration with Aboriginal Language Centres across the NT and WA #IndigenousLanguages First Languages Aust indigenous_gov Living Languages language-lab.cdu.edu.au/investing-in-a…

PhD projects and scholarships for research at the frontier of language, culture, technology, and wellbeing. In partnership with Aboriginal communities in northern and western Australia. For details please visit: language-lab.cdu.edu.au @Indigenous_Inst Northern Institute Charles Darwin University Top End Language Lab

If you're attending #EMNLP21 please come to Will Lane's presentation today on our research on interactive transcription in Aboriginal Australia aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-mai… underline.io/events/192/ses… William Lane Top End Language Lab Northern Institute EMNLP 2026 #kunwinjku

If you're attending #EMNLP21 please come to my keynote talk: Language Technology for All? Rethinking the Agenda. underline.io/events/192/ses… Top End Language Lab Northern Institute Charles Darwin University EMNLP 2026 #LT4All

Eric and Will began their PhD journeys at CDU three years ago. Here we are in Dublin to report their research at the 60th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics! @EricLf4 William Lane Steven Bird 🍉 ACL 2026 #ACL2022 Northern Institute Charles Darwin University #nlproc 2022.aclweb.org/post/acl-2022-…

Congratulations to Annie Cameron for winning the ALS Jalwang Scholarship, to amplify the community-oriented outcomes of her PhD research at the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre @linguistannie @AusLingSoc #AusLingSoc2022 Northern Institute Charles Darwin University als.asn.au/News/33572/202…

Congratulations Steven Bird 🍉 on being awarded the ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize at #LREC2022! Well deserved!

We're recruiting PhD students in the intersection of language, technology and design, focussing on Indigenous languages, eg: How does language revitalisation actually work? How can we learn oral languages without reducing them to writing? Charles Darwin University Northern Institute language-lab.cdu.edu.au/study/

🐜 Did you know Ants and termites can be used as indicators of environmental rehabilitation? Read more: go.cdu.edu.au/fama Interested in making your own research impact? Study a Higher Degree by Research at CDU. Apply now: bit.ly/3vQljsU

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" Northern Institute Charles Darwin University language-lab.cdu.edu.au/study/

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/study/

Speech recognition and translation requires more data than is available for some languages. Join Steven Bird 🍉, PhD to explore other, inclusive, possibilities for language technologies. Register now–30% off ends soon. hubs.li/Q01nFCKX0 Charles Darwin University

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. Brandon Wiltshire Dr Rebecca Hardwick Steven Bird 🍉 Northern Institute Charles Darwin University tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Next Thousand Languages. A talk at ODSC West 2022 on technological responses to the world's linguistic diversity. How can speech and language technology respect linguistic ecology, oral culture, bilingualism, and local self-determination? @odsc odsc.com/speakers/the-n…

Domestic PhD opportunity at Charles Darwin University: 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 Northern Institute TopEndSTS

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].