Top End Language Lab

PhD opportunity on keeping Indigenous languages strong in northern Australia through storytelling, song, social exchange, tourism... under Indigenous leadership. We have a $40k/year domestic scholarship. Please send expressions of interest to steven.bird@cdu.edu.au.

Domestic PhD opportunity at @CDUni: Keeping Culture Strong: Two-way practices and social exchange in remote Aboriginal communities. Join our team doing groundbreaking research with #FirstNations communities in Australia's Top End seek.com.au/job/59729773 @cdu_ni @TopEnd_STS

The Next Thousand Languages. A talk at ODSC West 2022 on technological responses to the world's linguistic diversity. How can speech and language technology respect linguistic ecology, oral culture, bilingualism, and local self-determination? @odsc odsc.com/speakers/the-n…

How does language revitalisation work? What contexts and mechanisms are responsible for producing what outcomes, why, and for whom? We survey the literature and share several program theories. @bmacwiltshire @rjlhardwick @stevenbird @cdu_ni @CDUni tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Speech recognition and translation requires more data than is available for some languages. Join @StevenBird, PhD to explore other, inclusive, possibilities for language technologies. Register now–30% off ends soon. hubs.li/Q01nFCKX0 @CDUni

@Romina_theCOO @CoEDLang We’re inviting applications for a PhD on Ethical AI and indigenous sovereignty at @CDUni. For more information please visit: language-lab.cdu.edu.au/study/

Dr Judith Bishop @CoEDLang Partner Investigator presenting linguistic diversity and AI

What is Ethical AI from an Indigenous standpoint? Join us in the Top End Language Lab and work with speakers of Australia's first languages. Deadline for domestic scholarship applications is 31 October 2022. We have extra funding for field-based research. language-lab.cdu.edu.au/study/

Do a PhD with us at CDU on "Keeping Culture Strong: Two-way practices and social exchange in remote Aboriginal communities" combining Ground Up methods with economic sociology, connected with ARC Project "Investing in Aboriginal Languages" @cdu_ni @CDUni language-lab.cdu.edu.au/study/

🐜 Did you know Ants and termites can be used as indicators of environmental rehabilitation? Read more: go.cdu.edu.au/fama Interested in making your own research impact? Study a Higher Degree by Research at CDU. Apply now: bit.ly/3vQljsU

We're recruiting PhD students in the intersection of language, technology and design, focussing on Indigenous languages, eg: How does language revitalisation actually work? How can we learn oral languages without reducing them to writing? @CDUni @cdu_ni language-lab.cdu.edu.au/study/

Congratulations @StevenBird on being awarded the @ELRAnews Antonio Zampolli Prize at #LREC2022! Well deserved!

Congratulations to Annie Cameron for winning the ALS Jalwang Scholarship, to amplify the community-oriented outcomes of her PhD research at the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre @linguistannie @AusLingSoc #AusLingSoc2022 @cdu_ni @CDUni als.asn.au/News/33572/202…

Eric and Will began their PhD journeys at CDU three years ago. Here we are in Dublin to report their research at the 60th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics! @EricLf4 @WLaneguage @stevenbird @aclmeeting #ACL2022 @cdu_ni @CDUni #nlproc 2022.aclweb.org/post/acl-2022-…

If you're attending #EMNLP21 please come to my keynote talk: Language Technology for All? Rethinking the Agenda. underline.io/events/192/ses… @cdu_tell @cdu_ni @CDUni @emnlpmeeting #LT4All

If you're attending #EMNLP21 please come to Will Lane's presentation today on our research on interactive transcription in Aboriginal Australia aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-mai… underline.io/events/192/ses… @WLaneguage @cdu_tell @cdu_ni @emnlpmeeting #kunwinjku

PhD projects and scholarships for research at the frontier of language, culture, technology, and wellbeing. In partnership with Aboriginal communities in northern and western Australia. For details please visit: language-lab.cdu.edu.au @Indigenous_Inst @cdu_ni @CDUni @cdu_tell

We are excited to announce one of our newest projects – Investing in Aboriginal Languages – an ARC project in collaboration with Aboriginal Language Centres across the NT and WA #IndigenousLanguages @FirstLangAU @indigenous_gov @LivingLangs language-lab.cdu.edu.au/investing-in-a…