Voices of Australian First Nations leaders concerning climate communication, and some learnings for technologies for indigenous languages. Our #ClimateNLP paper plus 10 minute intro video. aclanthology.org/2024.climatenl… bit.ly/bird-climatenl… ACL SIGEL C3NLP #SIGUL #SIGEL #LT4All

In his Keynote at #CLARIN2024, Steven Bird Steven Bird 🍉 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'.

On the final day of #CLARIN2024, Steven Bird 🍉 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 💡

Last week I spoke at #CLARIN2024 on language technologies and the metacrisis, suggesting alternatives to the popular ‘hallucinating plagiarism machines’. These scalable methods and design patterns centre human agency, capacity, and diversity. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=tX8yYp…

As published in TheArticle, “the only publication committed to covering every angle”, ho ho ho 🙄 Has anyone published a scholarly response to Wifedom?

Language Technology and the Metacrisis, my recent talk at Australasian Language Technology Workshop Australasian Language Technology Association youtube.com/watch?v=YcU_tZ…

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