@article{castro-etal-2026-modern,
    title = "A Modern Online Learning Platform for ʻ{{\={O}}}lelo Hawaiʻi Classrooms",
    author = "Castro, Christian  and
      Martin, Keneth  and
      Wu, Winston  and
      Wilson, William H.",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.277/",
    pages = "3484--3489",
    abstract = "We present H{\={o}}ʻoi Aʻo, a browser-based platform designed to streamline the teaching workflow and enhance the learning experience for students in Hawaiian language classes. Built with modern technologies including FastAPI, React, and MongoDB, the platform provides an intuitive and specialized environment for both instructors and students of ʻ{\={O}}lelo Hawaiʻi. Our platform enables instructors to add content, create or import quizzes in multiple formats, view and analyze common student mistakes, and ultimately save time through automatic grading. Students can access chapters, lessons, assignments, and quizzes all in one place, with automatically graded quizzes for instant feedback and unlimited randomly-generated practice questions created using an innovative synchronous context-free grammar approach, allowing students to obtain extra language practice outside of class. Currently, the platform supports content from Book 1 of N{\={a}} Kai ʻEwalu, a popular Hawaiian textbook. H{\={o}}ʻoi Aʻo not only makes language practice more accessible for a language with few existing learning resources, but also represents a step toward a more modern and effective digital ecosystem for teaching and learning ʻ{\={O}}lelo Hawaiʻi."
}