@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://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2022.acl-long.539/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.539",
    pages = "7817--7829",
    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."
}