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Publications

Designing Mobile Applications for Endangered Languages
Steven Bird (forthcoming), In Ken Rehg and Lyle Campbell (eds), Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, Oxford University Press

Developing a Suite of Mobile Applications for Collaborative Language Documentation [PDF]
Mat Bettinson and Steven Bird (2017),  Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, Honolulu

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Language Modeling [PDF]
Oliver Adams, Adam Makarucha, Graham Neubig, Steven Bird and Trevor Cohn (2017), EACL, Barcelona

Multilingual Training of Crosslingual Word Embeddings [PDF]
Long Duong, Hiroshi Kanayama, Tengfei Ma, Steven Bird and Trevor Cohn (2017), EACL, Barcelona

Learning Crosslingual Word Embeddings without Bilingual Corpora [PDF]
Long Duong, Hiroshi Kanayama, Tengfei Ma, Steven Bird, and Trevor Cohn (2016), EMNLP, Austin

Learning a Lexicon and Translation Model from Phoneme Lattices [PDF]
Oliver Adams, Graham Neubig, Trevor Cohn, Steven Bird, Quoc Truong Do and Satoshi Nakamura (2016), EMNLP, Austin

Learning a translation model from word lattices [PDF]
Oliver Adams, Graham Neubig, Trevor Cohn, and Steven Bird (2016). INTERSPEECH, San Francisco
 
An attentional model for speech translation without transcription [PDF]. Long Duong, Antonios Anastasopoulos, David Chiang, Steven Bird and Trevor Cohn (2016). Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Aikuma: A Mobile App for Collaborative Language Documentation [PDF]. Steven Bird, Florian R. Hanke, Oliver Adams and Haejoong Lee (2014), Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pp1-5, Baltimore, USA

Large-scale text collection for unwritten languages [PDF]. Florian Hanke and Steven Bird (2013), Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp1134-1138, Nagoya, Japan

The International Workshop on Language Preservation: An Experiment in Text Collection and Language Technology [PDF]. Steven Bird, David Chiang, Friedel Frowein, Andrea L. Berez, Mark Eby, Florian Hanke, Ryan Shelby, Ashish Vaswani, and Ada Wan (2013), Language Documentation and Conservation 7, 155-167

Machine translation for language preservation [PDF]. Steven Bird and David Chiang (2012), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp125-133, Mumbai, India

The Human Language Project: Building a universal corpus of the World’s languages [PDF]. Steven Abney and Steven Bird (2010), Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp88-97, Uppsala, Sweden

A scalable method for preserving oral literature from small languages [PDF]. Steven Bird (2010), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, pp5-14, Gold Coast, Australia

Funding

Language Induction Meets Language Documentation: Leveraging Bilingual Aligned Audio for Learning and Preserving Languages
→ $470k award to University of Notre Dame and International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley), 2014–17

Exploiting Language Information for Situational Awareness
→ award to University of Southern California, International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley), University of Pennsylvania, and University of Notre Dame, 2015-19

Language engineering in the field: preserving 100 endangered languages in New Guinea
→ $A123k award to University of Melbourne, 2012–15

Language Preservation 2.0: Crowdsourcing Oral Language Documentation Using Mobile Devices
→ $102k award to University of Pennsylvania and University of Melbourne, 2012–14

Machine Translation for Language Preservation
→ $180k award to University of Southern California and University of Melbourne, 2011–12

Basic Oral Language Documentation in Papua New Guinea
→ $10k award to University of Melbourne, 2010–11


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