Graphemic Approximation of Phonological Context for English-Chinese Transliteration

Oi Yee Kwong

Graphemic Approximation of Phonological Context for English-Chinese Transliteration

Oi Yee Kwong

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Although direct orthographic mapping has been shown to outperform phoneme-based methods in English-to-Chinese (E2C) transliteration, it is observed that phonological context plays an important role in resolving graphemic ambiguity. In this paper, we investigate the use of surface graphemic features to approximate local phonological context for E2C. In the absence of an explicit phonemic representation of the English source names, experiments show that the previous and next character of a given English segment could effectively capture the local context affecting its expected pronunciation, and thus its rendition in Chinese. © 2009 ACL and AFNLP

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	186-193
ISBN (Print)	978-1-932432-57-2
Publication status	Published - Aug 2009
Event	2009 Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009): Shared Task on Transliteration - Suntec, Singapore Duration: 7 Aug 2009 → … https://aclanthology.org/W09-35

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Conference	2009 Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009)
Place	Singapore
City	Suntec
Period	7/08/09 → …
Internet address	https://aclanthology.org/W09-35

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