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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-Solano, 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://aclanthology.org/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."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Crosslingual Dependency Parsing of Hawaiian and Cook Islands Māori using Universal Dependencies
%A Gilbert, Gabriel H.
%A Coto-Solano, Rolando
%A Nicholas, Sally Akevai
%A Houchens, Lauren
%A Barton, Sabrina
%A Pryor, Trinity
%Y Sagae, Kenji
%Y Oepen, Stephan
%S Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT, SyntaxFest 2025)
%D 2025
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Ljubljana, Slovenia
%@ 979-8-89176-294-7
%F gilbert-etal-2025-crosslingual
%X This paper presents the first Universal Dependency (UD) treebank for ʻŌlelo 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 Māori, 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 Māori. We will use this parser to accelerate the linguistic documentation of Hawaiian.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwpt-1.5/
%P 40-50
Markdown (Informal)
[Crosslingual Dependency Parsing of Hawaiian and Cook Islands Māori using Universal Dependencies](https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwpt-1.5/) (Gilbert et al., IWPT-SyntaxFest 2025)
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