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A/PROF STEVEN BIRD



Contact Details

Organization: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb
Work: 8344-1361
Fax: 9348-1184
Room: 6.07
Level: 06
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Language Technology; Linguistic Databases; Digital Archives Natural Language Processing; Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation Australia, United States of America, Cameroon

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of Pennsylvania Research
United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Associate of Music Australia Victorian College of the Arts 31-Dec-1983
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1986
Master of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1987
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Edinburgh 31-Dec-1991

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association for Computational Linguistics Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics 01-Jan-1987

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
AN INTELLIGENT SEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR LANGUAGE RESOURCES ON THE WEB Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL ARC Special Research Initiatives E-Research 01/01/2005
PARADISEC- PACIFIC AND REGIONAL ARCHIVE FOR DIGITAL SOURCES IN ENDANGERED CULTURES: ACCESSIBILITY & DECENTRALISATION Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2005
Dynamic personalisation for assisted navigation of information rich, physical environments Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
Online linguistic exploration: deeper, faster, broader language documentation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Books

  • Natural Language Processing with Python
    Year: 2009
    Publisher: O'Reilly Media Inc(Sebastopol, CA)
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Journal Articles

  • Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Computational Linguistics
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 469-474
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Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Querying Linguistic Annotations


    Year: 2008
    Event name: ADCS 2008 - Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Page numbers: 69-72
    Publisher: RMIT University(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Defining a Core Body of Knowledge for the Introductory Computational Linguistics Curriculum
    Year: 2008
    Event name: TEACH CL-08 The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics
    Page numbers: 27-35
    Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics(New Jersey)
    Author(s):
  • Multidisciplinary Instruction with the Natural Language Toolkit
    Year: 2008
    Event name: TEACH CL-08 Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics
    Page numbers: 62-70
    Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics(New Jersey)
    Author(s):
  • The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics
    Year: 2008
    Event name: LREC '08 - the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: European Language Resources Association(Paris)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Managing Fieldwork Data with Toolbox and the Natural Language Toolkit
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Language Documentation and Conservation
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 44-57
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Dynamic Path Prediction and Recommendation in a Museum Environment
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ACL 2007 - Workshop in Language Technology for Cultural Heritage
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007)
    Page numbers: 49-56
    Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics(New Jersey)
    Author(s):
  • Graphical Query for Linguistic Treebanks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: PACLING 2007-10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics
    Page numbers: 22-30
    Publisher: Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics(Tokyo)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

Computer Software Products

Audio Visual Recordings

    Publications in 2005

    Journal Articles

    • Transforming Access to the Spoken Word
      Year: 2005
      Journal: International Journal on Digital Libraries
      Volume: 5
      Issue: 4
      Page numbers: 287-298
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    Conference Publications/Papers

    Publications in 2004

    Book Chapters

    • Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation
      Year: 2004
      Book: Metadata in Practice
      Publisher: American Library Association(Atlanta)
      Authors(s):

    Conference Publications/Papers

    • Functional Requirements for an Interlinear Text Editor
      Year: 2004
      Event name: LREC 2004
      Conference Publication: 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Page numbers: 771-775
      Publisher: Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency(Paris)
      Author(s):
    • Management of Metadata in Linguistic Fieldwork: Experience from the ACLA Project
      Year: 2004
      Event name: Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Conference Publication: On Language Resources and Evaluation
      Volume: I
      Page numbers: 193 - 196
      Publisher: European Language Resource Association(Paris)
      Author(s):
      URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001406/
    • NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit
      Year: 2004
      Event name: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
      Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
      Page numbers: 1-4
      Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics(Pennsylvania)
      Author(s):
      URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001448/
    • Querying and Updating Treebanks: A Critical Survey and Requirements Analysis
      Year: 2004
      Event name: Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004
      Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004
      Page numbers: 139-146
      Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
      Author(s):
      URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000774/
    • Representing and Rendering Linguistic Paradigms
      Year: 2004
      Event name: Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004
      Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004
      Page numbers: 123-130
      Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
      Author(s):
      URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000773/
    • Securing Interpretability: The Case of Ega Language Documentation
      Year: 2004
      Event name: LREC 2004
      Conference Publication: 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Page numbers: 1369-1372
      Publisher: Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency(Paris)
      Author(s):
    • TalkBank: Building an Open Unified Multimodal Database of Communicative Interaction
      Year: 2004
      Event name: LREC 2004
      Conference Publication: 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Page numbers: 525-528
      Publisher: Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency(Paris)
      Author(s):
    • Towards a General Model for Linguistic Paradigms
      Year: 2004
      Event name: E-MELD Workshop on Databases and Best Practice
      Conference Publication: E-MELD Workshop on Databases and Best Practice
      Page numbers: 1-15
      Publisher: emeld.org(Michigan)
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    Publications in 2003

    Books

    Journal Articles

    • Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI Foundation
      Year: 2003
      Journal: Library Hi Tech
      Volume: 21
      Issue: 2
      Page numbers: 210-218
      Publisher: Emerald
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    • Extending Dublin Core Metadata to Support the Description and Discovery of Language Resources
      Year: 2003
      Journal: Computers and the Humanities
      Volume: 37
      Issue: 4
      Page numbers: 375-388
      Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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    • Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation
      Year: 2003
      Journal: Language
      Volume: 79
      Issue: 3
      Page numbers: 557-582
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    • The Open Language Archives Community: An Infrastructure for Distributed Archiving of Language Resources
      Year: 2003
      Journal: Literary and Linguistic Computing
      Volume: 18
      Issue: 12
      Page numbers: 117-128
      Publisher: Oxford University Press
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    Major Reference Works

    • Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics:Computational Phonology
      Year: 2003
      Reference Work Title: Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
      Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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    • The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics:Phonology
      Year: 2003
      Reference Work Title: The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics
      Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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    Conference Publications/Papers

    Publications in 2002

    Conference Publications/Papers

    • An Integrated Framework for Treebanks and Multilayer Annotations
      Year: 2002
      Event name: LREC 2002
      Conference Publication: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Page numbers: 1670-1677
      Publisher: Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency(Paris)
      Author(s):
    • Creating Annotation Tools with the Annotation Graph Toolkit
      Year: 2002
      Event name: LREC 2002
      Conference Publication: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Page numbers: 1914-1921
      Publisher: Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency(Paris)
      Author(s):
    • Models and Tools for Collaborative Annotation
      Year: 2002
      Event name: LREC 2002
      Conference Publication: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Page numbers: 2066-2073
      Publisher: Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency(Paris)
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    • TableTrans, MultiTrans, InterTrans and TreeTrans: Diverse Tools Built on the Annotation Graph Toolkit
      Year: 2002
      Event name: LREC 2002
      Conference Publication: Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
      Page numbers: 364-370
      Publisher: Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency(Paris)
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    Publications in 2001

    Journal Articles

    • A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation
      Year: 2001
      Journal: Speech Communication
      Volume: 33
      Issue: 1,2
      Page numbers: 23-60
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    • Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools
      Year: 2001
      Journal: Speech Communication
      Volume: 33
      Issue: 1,2
      Page numbers: 1-4
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    Conference Publications/Papers

    • Annotation Graphs and Servers and Multi-Modal Resources: Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Education, Research and Development
      Year: 2001
      Event name: ACL/EACL 2001
      Conference Publication: ACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education
      Page numbers: 23-30
      Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics(Pennsylvania)
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    • The OLAC Metadata Set and Controlled Vocabularies
      Year: 2001
      Event name: ACL/EACL 2001
      Conference Publication: ACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education
      Page numbers: 7-18
      Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics(Pennsylvania)
      Author(s):
    • The Open Language Archives Community and Asian Language Resources
      Year: 2001
      Event name: 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS)
      Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Workshop of Language Resources in Asia
      Page numbers: 31-38
      Publisher: NLPRS Workshop(Tokyo)
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