@InProceedings{Solano:Nicholas:Wray:2018:ALTA2018,
author	 = {Solano, Rolando Coto and Nicholas, Sally Akevai and Wray, Samantha},
title		 = {Development of Natural Language Processing Tools for Cook Islands Māori},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018},
month	 = {December},
year		 = {2018},
address  = {Dunedin, New Zealand},
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.},
url			 = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/U18-1003}
}