Developing a Part-Of-Speech tagger for te reo Māori

no code implementations • ComputEL (ACL) 2022 • Aoife Finn, Peter-Lucas Jones, Keoni Mahelona, Suzanne Duncan, Gianna Leoni

This is because at the time of development of our POS tagger, the UD conventions had still not been used to tag a Polyneisan language such as Māori, nor did it provide any guidelines about how to tag them.

POS TAG

Annotating “Particles” in Multiword Expressions in te reo Māori for a Part-of-Speech Tagger

no code implementations • LREC (MWE) 2022 • Aoife Finn, Suzanne Duncan, Peter-Lucas Jones, Gianna Leoni, Keoni Mahelona

These “particles” are reflective of the analytical and polysemous nature of te reo Māori.

Part-Of-Speech Tagging

Language Models for Code-switch Detection of te reo Māori and English in a Low-resource Setting

no code implementations • Findings (NAACL) 2022 • Jesin James, Vithya Yogarajan, Isabella Shields, Catherine Watson, Peter Keegan, Keoni Mahelona, Peter-Lucas Jones

We also show that BiLSTM with pre-trained Māori-English sub-word embeddings outperforms large-scale contextual language models such as BERT on down streaming tasks of detecting Māori language.

Transfer Learning Word Embeddings

The Development of a Labelled te reo Māori-English Bilingual Database for Language Technology

no code implementations • 21 Aug 2022 • Jesin James, Isabella Shields, Vithya Yogarajan, Peter J. Keegan, Catherine Watson, Peter-Lucas Jones, Keoni Mahelona

The New Zealand Parliament Hansard debates reports were used to build the database.

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