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Substring-Based Transliteration

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Substring-Based Transliteration
Transliteration is the task of converting a word from one alphabetic script to another. We present a novel, substring-based approach to transliteration, inspired by phrasebased models of machine translation. We investigate two implementations of substringbased transliteration: a dynamic programming algorithm, and a finite-state transducer. We show that our substring-based transducer not only outperforms a state-of-the-art letterbased approach by a significant margin, but is also orders of magnitude faster.
Tarek Sherif, Grzegorz Kondrak
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ACL
Authors Tarek Sherif, Grzegorz Kondrak
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