Kuene: A Web Platform for Facilitating Hawaiian Word Neologism

Sunny Walker, Winston Wu, Bruce Torres Fischer, Larry Kimura


Abstract
This paper presents Kuene, a web-based collaborative dictionary editing platform designed to facilitate the creation and publication of Hawaiian neologisms by the Hawaiian Lexicon Committee. Through Kuene, the Committee can create, edit, and refine new dictionary entries with a multi-round approval process, ensuring accuracy and consistency. The platform’s tech- nical features enable flexible access control, fine-grained approval states, and support for multimedia content and AI-assisted orthogra- phy modernization. Just in the past two months, Kuene has enabled the publication of over 400 new Hawaiian words. By streamlining the dic- tionary editing process, Kuene aims to alleviate the scarcity of modern Hawaiian words and fa- cilitate the revitalization efforts of the Hawaiian
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2025.computel-main.21
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Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
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March
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2025
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Jordan Lachler, Godfred Agyapong, Antti Arppe, Sarah Moeller, Aditi Chaudhary, Shruti Rijhwani, Daisy Rosenblum
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Sunny Walker, Winston Wu, Bruce Torres Fischer, and Larry Kimura. 2025. Kuene: A Web Platform for Facilitating Hawaiian Word Neologism. In Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pages 182–187, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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