Direct combination of spelling and pronunciation information for robust back-transliteration

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3406, Issue , 2005, Pages 413-424

  Bilac, Slaven ^a   Tanaka, Hozumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BACK-TRANSLITERATION; GRAPHEME; PRONUNCIATION; TRANSLITERATING WORDS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 24344439391     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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