Crosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) usually requires query translation and, due to named entities in the case of IR, query translation requires a good transliteration system ...
Automatic transliteration problem is to transcribe foreign words in one's own alphabet. Machine generated transliteration can be useful in various applications such as indexi...
We will present a novel two-step fuzzy translation technique for cross-lingual spelling variants. In the first stage, transformation rules are applied to source words to render th...
Ari Pirkola, Jarmo Toivonen, Heikki Keskustalo, Ka...