Hybrid Hashtags

The Hybrid Hashtag (HH) Sub-Corpus is a subset of tweets in the MLT Corpus containing hashtags made up of Māori and English words (so-called "hybrid hashtags"). There are 81 hybrid hashtags in this dataset, used in 5,684 tweets and posted to Twitter by 3,771 distinct users. Popular hashtags include #waitangiday, #maorilanguageweek, #gokiwi, #proudkiwi, #kiwipride and #letssharegoodtereostories.

Download the HH Corpus

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Citing the HH Corpus

If you use the Hybrid Hashtag Corpus, please cite the following paper:

• Trye, D., Calude, A. S., Bravo-Marquez, F., & Keegan, T. T. (2020). Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English. Front. Artif. Intell. 3:15. doi:10.3389/frai.2020.00015.

Media Attention

• Article in The Conversation, Hashtags may not be words, grammatically speaking, but they help spread a message, 3 November 2020

Team

• David Trye
• Andreea S. Calude
• Te Taka Keegan

External Collaborators:

• Felipe Bravo Marquez, University of Chile, Chile

Funding

We graciously acknowledge the generous support of:

• Marsden Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand