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ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Transliteration Alignment
This paper studies transliteration alignment, its evaluation metrics and applications. We propose a new evaluation metric, alignment entropy, grounded on the information theory, t...
Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li, Bo Lin
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs
We propose a novel HMM-based framework to accurately transliterate unseen named entities. The framework leverages features in letteralignment and letter n-gram pairs learned from ...
Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian R. Lane, Stephan Vogel
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Joint Source-Channel Model for Machine Transliteration
Most foreign names are transliterated into Chinese, Japanese or Korean with approximate phonetic equivalents. The transliteration is usually achieved through intermediate phonemic...
Haizhou Li, Min Zhang, Jian Su
CIKM
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Statistical transliteration for english-arabic cross language information retrieval
Out of vocabulary (OOV) words are problematic for cross language information retrieval. One way to deal with OOV words when the two languages have different alphabets, is to trans...
Nasreen Abdul Jaleel, Leah S. Larkey
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Transliteration as Constrained Optimization
This paper introduces a new method for identifying named-entity (NE) transliterations in bilingual corpora. Recent works have shown the advantage of discriminative approaches to t...
Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth