Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios

Steven Bird


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.
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2022.acl-long.539
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Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7817–7829
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.539
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.539
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Steven Bird. 2022. Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7817–7829, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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