@inproceedings{solano-etal-2018-development,
    title = "Development of Natural Language Processing Tools for {C}ook {I}slands {M}{\={a}}ori",
    author = "Solano, Rolando Coto  and
      Nicholas, Sally Akevai  and
      Wray, Samantha",
    editor = "Kim, Sunghwan Mac  and
      Zhang, Xiuzhen (Jenny)",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018",
    month = dec,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Dunedin, New Zealand",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/U18-1003/",
    pages = "26--33",
    abstract = "This paper presents three ongoing projects for NLP in Cook Islands Maori: Untrained Forced Alignment (approx. 9{\%} error when detecting the center of words), speech-to-text (37{\%} WER in the best trained models) and POS tagging (92{\%} accuracy for the best performing model). Included as part of these projects are new resources filling in a gap in Australasian languages, including gold standard POS-tagged written corpora, transcribed speech corpora, time-aligned corpora down to the level of phonemes. These are part of efforts to accelerate the documentation of Cook Islands Maori and to increase its vitality amongst its users."
}