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ACL
2011
12 years 8 months ago
An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid
EACL
2009
ACL Anthology
13 years 2 months ago
MINT: A Method for Effective and Scalable Mining of Named Entity Transliterations from Large Comparable Corpora
In this paper, we address the problem of mining transliterations of Named Entities (NEs) from large comparable corpora. We leverage the empirical fact that multilingual news artic...
Raghavendra Udupa, K. Saravanan, A. Kumaran, Jagad...
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Phoneme-Based Transliteration of Foreign Names for OOV Problem
One problem seriously affecting CLIR performance is the processing of queries with embedded foreign names. A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation fr...
Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Wai Lam
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Methods for Transliteration
We present two discriminative methods for name transliteration. The methods correspond to local and global modeling approaches in modeling structured output spaces. Both methods d...
Dmitry Zelenko, Chinatsu Aone
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Weakly Supervised Named Entity Transliteration and Discovery from Multilingual Comparable Corpora
Named Entity recognition (NER) is an important part of many natural language processing tasks. Current approaches often employ machine learning techniques and require supervised d...
Alexandre Klementiev, Dan Roth