Abstract
Transliteration of given parallel name entities can be formulated as a phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) process, via its routine procedure comprising training, optimization and decoding. In this paper, we present our approach to transliterating name entities using the log-linear phrase-based SMT on character sequences. Our proposed work improves the translation by using bidirectional models, plus some heuristic guidance integrated in the decoding process. Our evaluated results indicate that this approach performs well in all standard runs in the NEWS2009 Machine Transliteration Shared Task. © 2009 ACL and AFNLP.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | NEWS 2009 - 2009 Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration - Proceedings of the Workshop, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 |
| Place of Publication | Stroudsburg, PA |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Pages | 57-60 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-932432-57-2, 1-932432-57-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Aug 2009 |
| Event | 2009 Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009): Shared Task on Transliteration - Suntec, Singapore Duration: 7 Aug 2009 → … https://aclanthology.org/W09-35 |
Publication series
| Name | NEWS - Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration at the Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the ACL and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP |
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Conference
| Conference | 2009 Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009) |
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| Place | Singapore |
| City | Suntec |
| Period | 7/08/09 → … |
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