Papers by David Trye
A Hybrid Architecture for Labelling Bilingual Māori-English Tweets (2022.findings-aacl)
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| Challenge: | a hybrid approach to annotate mixed Mori-English text is developed . existing language detection tools struggle with interlingual homographs . |
| Approach: | They propose a hybrid approach that couples Mori-language orthography with machine learning to annotate mixed Mi-English text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing methods on out-of-domain data. |
Māori Loanwords: A Corpus of New Zealand English Tweets (P19-2)
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| Challenge: | Mori loanwords are widely used in New Zealand English for various social functions by New Zealanders within and outside of the Mi community. |
| Approach: | They present a corpus of New Zealand English tweets containing selected Mori words that are likely to be known by New Zealanders who do not speak Mi. |
| Outcome: | The results show that over 30% of the Mori loanwords in tweets are irrelevant . they were manually annotated and used to train machine learning models to filter out irrelevant tweets. |