Harnessing Indigenous Tweets: The Reo Maori Twitter corpus.

ABSTRACT: Te reo Māori, the Indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand, is a distinctive feature of the nation's cultural heritage. This paper documents our efforts to build a corpus of 79,000 Māori-language tweets using computational methods. The Reo Māori Twitter (RMT) Corpus was created by targeting Māori-language users identified by the Indigenous Tweets website, pre-processing their data and filtering out non-Māori tweets, together with other sources of noise. Our motivation for creating such a resource is three-fold: (1) it serves as a rich and unique dataset for linguistic analysis of te reo Māori on social media; (2) it can be used as training data to develop and augment Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools with robust, real-world Māori-language applications; and (3) it wil

SUBMITTER: Trye D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8852919 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature