@inproceedings{bird-2022-multiword,
title = "Multiword Expressions and the Low-Resource Scenario from the Perspective of a Local Oral Culture",
author = "Bird, Steven",
editor = "Bhatia, Archna and
Cook, Paul and
Taslimipoor, Shiva and
Garcia, Marcos and
Ramisch, Carlos",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions @LREC2022",
month = jun,
year = "2022",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.mwe-1.2",
pages = "2",
abstract = "Research on multiword expressions and on under-resourced languages often begins with problematisation. The existence of non-compositional meaning, or the paucity of conventional language resources, are treated as problems to be solved. This perspective is associated with the view of Language as a lexico-grammatical code, and of NLP as a conventional sequence of computational tasks. In this talk, I share from my experience in an Australian Aboriginal community, where people tend to see language as an expression of identity and of {`}connection to country{'}. Here, my early attempts to collect language data were thwarted. There was no obvious role for tasks like speech recognition, parsing, or translation. Instead, working under the authority of local elders, I pivoted to language processing tasks that were more in keeping with local interests and aspirations. I describe these tasks and suggest some new ways of framing the work of NLP, and I explore implications for work on multiword expressions and on under-resourced languages.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Multiword Expressions and the Low-Resource Scenario from the Perspective of a Local Oral Culture](https://aclanthology.org/2022.mwe-1.2) (Bird, MWE 2022)
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