Steven Bird

Bio

Steven Bird works on linguistic data management through the full life-cycle from collection and annotation to preservation and access. With colleagues and students he has been developing scalable methods for working with under-resourced languages in indigenous communities. His career began with a BSc and MSc in computer science at Melbourne University, followed by a PhD in computational linguistics from Edinburgh University, completed in 1990. Since then he has worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Pennsylvania and Melbourne, and conducted fieldwork in Australia, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, and Brazil. He has an ongoing appointment in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. In 2009, Steven served as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.