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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 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
ACL
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora
In this paper we investigate ChineseEnglish name transliteration using comparable corpora, corpora where texts in the two languages deal in some of the same topics -- and therefor...
Richard Sproat, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
CICLING
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Direct Combination of Spelling and Pronunciation Information for Robust Back-Transliteration
Abstract. Transliterating words and names from one language to another is a frequent and highly productive phenomenon. For example, English word cache is transliterated in Japanese...
Slaven Bilac, Hozumi Tanaka
TAL
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Transliteration as Alignment vs. Transliteration as Generation for Crosslingual Information Retrieval
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 ...
Anil Kumar Singh, Sethuramalingam Subramaniam, Tar...
CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Hindi to English and Marathi to English Cross Language Information Retrieval Evaluation
In this paper, we present our Hindi to English and Marathi to English CLIR systems developed as part of our participation in the CLEF 2007 Ad-Hoc Bilingual task. We take a query tr...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Sagar Ranadive, Om P. Dam...