Steven Bird

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I have spent much of my career working with minoritised people groups in Africa, Melanesia, Amazonia, and Australia, and exploring how people keep their oral languages and cultures strong. I have held academic appointments at Edinburgh, UPenn, Berkeley, and Melbourne. I established the ACL Anthology, the Open Language Archives Community and the Natural Language Toolkit, and am past associate director of the Linguistic Data Consortium, and past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Since 2017 I have been research professor at Charles Darwin University, where I collaborate with Indigenous leaders and direct the Top End Language Lab, http://language-lab.cdu.edu.au. I pursue other language-related projects at http://aikuma.org.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Professor, Charles Darwin University
  • 2002–2017
    Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
  • 1998–2002
    Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1991–1998
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Education

  • 1991 
    University of Edinburgh, PhD
  • 1987 
    University of Melbourne, MSc
  • 1985 
    University of Melbourne, BSc(hons)

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