Rolando Coto Solano

Rolando Coto Solano is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College, with an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment in Computer Science and an Affiliate Professor role in the Quantitative Social Science Program (QSS). He focuses on creating computational tools to document and revitalize Indigenous languages like Cook Islands Māori and Bribri.

• Education: PhD and MA in Linguistics from the University of Arizona; BA in Computer Science from the University of Costa Rica.

Research Interests include:

• Natural Language Processing for Indigenous and Under-Resourced Languages
• Tonal Phonetics and Phonology, with a focus on tonal reduction
• Sociophonetics, particularly interisland variation in Cook Islands Māori

Publication Trends show expertise in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Indigenous languages, computational sociophonetics, tonal priming, and metadata standards in academic publishing. He collaborates on tools like Universal Dependencies treebanks and the ELPIS pipeline.

Scientific Awards:

• Fulbright Foreign Student Program (Master’s Degree)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Consultant
• Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund
• Ship for World Youth Program (Office of the Prime Minister of Japan)