@inproceedings{gilbert-etal-2025-crosslingual,
    title = "Crosslingual Dependency Parsing of {H}awaiian and {C}ook {I}slands {M}{\={a}}ori using {U}niversal {D}ependencies",
    author = "Gilbert, Gabriel H.  and
      Coto-Solanu, Rolando  and
      Nicholas, Sally Akevai  and
      Houchens, Lauren  and
      Barton, Sabrina  and
      Pryor, Trinity",
    editor = "Sagae, Kenji  and
      Oepen, Stephan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT, SyntaxFest 2025)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/transition-to-people-yaml/2025.iwpt-1.5/",
    pages = "40--50",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-294-7",
    abstract = "This paper presents the first Universal Dependency (UD) treebank for ʻ{\={O}}lelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian). We discuss some of the difficulties in describing Hawaiian grammar using UD, and train models for automatic parsing. We also combined this data with UD parses from another Eastern Polynesian language, Cook Islands M{\={a}}ori, to train a crosslingual Polynesian parser using UDPipe2. The crosslingual parser produced a statistically significant improvement of 2.4{\%} in the labeled attachment score (LAS) when parsing Hawaiian, and this improvement didn{'}t produce a negative impact in the LAS of Cook Islands M{\={a}}ori. We will use this parser to accelerate the linguistic documentation of Hawaiian."
}