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.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.acl-long.539
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7817–7829
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.539
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.539
- Cite (ACL):
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- Local Languages, Third Spaces, and other High-Resource Scenarios (Bird, ACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/2022.acl-long.539.pdf