Papers with Hawaiian
Recovering Missing Characters in Old Hawaiian Writing (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Modern Hawaiian orthography includes characters for long vowels and glottal stops . manual transliteration is laborious when performed manually . |
| Approach: | They propose two methods to help transliterate Hawaiian between older and newer texts automatically using finite state transducers and a recurrent neural network language model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method solves the transliteration problem automatically using finite state transducers and a neural network language model. |
Statistical and Neural Methods for Hawaiian Orthography Modernization (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Hawaiian orthography employs two distinct spelling systems, both of which are used by communities of speakers today. |
| Approach: | They develop models that convert between the ‘okina letter and kahak diacritic, which represent glottal stops and long vowels, respectively. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform neural seq2seq models and LLMs in a low-resource setting, highlighting the potential for traditional machine learning approaches in . low-cost environments. |