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# Developing A Hawaiian Corpus Toolkit for Data-Driven Language Learning

**Authors:** Joseph Winkie, Michol Miller, [Winston Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/winston-wu/) · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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## Summary

Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) is a critically endangered language, and its revitalization faces two problems: there are few teaching materials, and most teachers are fluent but are not native speakers. Learners therefore get little exposure to natural L1 speech. The authors respond by building a browser-based, multimodal corpus toolkit for data-driven learning (DDL). It comes preloaded with transcribed and audio-aligned episodes of the Ka Leo Hawaiʻi radio program, which features interviews with native speakers.

Users can run several analyses:
- concordance/KWIC searches
- frequency lists
- collocations
- n-gram and regex queries

The backend uses PostgreSQL with an inverted index. Its tokenization preserves the ʻokina and macron vowels. Unlike Sketch Engine, it requires no subscription, and unlike AntConc, users do not need to import their own corpus.

In early interviews, two Hawaiian teachers responded positively. They valued seeing many examples of a word or structure at once and hearing pronunciation vary across speakers. The toolkit is still internal. A second phase will offer training workshops for teachers, learners and parents. The work matters because it offers a practical model for corpus-based pedagogy in low-resource Indigenous languages.

## Key points

- Data comes from the Ka Leo Hawaiʻi radio program (1972–1988), hosted in the Kaniʻāina repository. Only 45 of the 417 episodes available online have transcripts, so the authors describe the result as an opportunistic corpus with no balanced sampling.
- The corpus contains 555,707 word tokens and 7,824 unique surface forms. These are indexed as raw forms, not lemmas.
- Preprocessing lowercases the text and keeps digits, the ʻokina and the vowels ā/ē/ī/ō/ū. All other characters are treated as delimiters.
- The toolkit's main differentiators are integrated native-speaker audio for pronunciation learning and a fully online setup with built-in data.
- The work is supported by NSF Award No. 2422413. The data is restricted to educational, non-commercial use, and the tool has not yet been tested much with learners.

*Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.*

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## Cite

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```bibtex
@inproceedings{winkie2026developing,
  title = {{Developing A Hawaiian Corpus Toolkit for Data-Driven Language Learning}},
  author = {Winkie, Joseph and Miller, Michol and Wu, Winston},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.computel-1.18},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.computel-1.18}
}
```

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