Analysing Māori Loanwords on Twitter

For my Honours project, I used machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to collect, clean and analyse a corpus of nearly three million tweets containing Māori loanwords.

My project gained media attention:

• Interview for Stuff NZ, Māori loanwords enrich Twitter, 8 July 2019
• Interview for Radio NZ, NZ’s unique te reo tweets, 12 February 2019
• Coverage from the University of Waikato, When machine learning, Twitter and te reo Māori merge, 11 February 2019