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ACL
2007
15 years 3 months ago
Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems
Most current machine transliteration systems employ a corpus of known sourcetarget word pairs to train their system, and typically evaluate their systems on a similar corpus. In t...
Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer
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NAACL
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Language identification of names with SVMs
The task of identifying the language of text or utterances has a number of applications in natural language processing. Language identification has traditionally been approached w...
Aditya Bhargava, Grzegorz Kondrak
CLEF
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Foreign Name Backward Transliteration in Chinese-English Cross-Language Image Retrieval
Abstract. In this paper we propose an approach to deal with the ChineseEnglish cross-language image retrieval problem. Text-based image retrieval and query translation methods were...
Wen-Cheng Lin, Changhua Yang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
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ACL
2012
13 years 4 months ago
Combining Word-Level and Character-Level Models for Machine Translation Between Closely-Related Languages
We propose several techniques for improving statistical machine translation between closely-related languages with scarce resources. We use character-level translation trained on ...
Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann
ACL
2010
14 years 12 months ago
Jointly Optimizing a Two-Step Conditional Random Field Model for Machine Transliteration and Its Fast Decoding Algorithm
This paper presents a joint optimization method of a two-step conditional random field (CRF) model for machine transliteration and a fast decoding algorithm for the proposed metho...
Dong Yang, Paul R. Dixon, Sadaoki Furui