‘Ōiwi Parker Jones

Also published as: Oiwi Parker Jones


2018

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Recovering Missing Characters in Old Hawaiian Writing
Brendan Shillingford | Oiwi Parker Jones
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

In contrast to the older writing system of the 19th century, modern Hawaiian orthography employs characters for long vowels and glottal stops. These extra characters account for about one-third of the phonemes in Hawaiian, so including them makes a big difference to reading comprehension and pronunciation. However, transliterating between older and newer texts is a laborious task when performed manually. We introduce two related methods to help solve this transliteration problem automatically. One approach is implemented, end-to-end, using finite state transducers (FSTs). The other is a hybrid deep learning approach, which approximately composes an FST with a recurrent neural network language model.

2008

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Phonotactic Probability and the Maori Passive: A Computational Approach
‘Ōiwi Parker Jones
Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology

2006

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Probabilities improve stress-prediction in a CFG of Hawaiian phonology
‘Ōiwi Parker Jones
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006