Machine learning based English-to-Korean transliteration using grapheme and phoneme information

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1737-1748

  Oh, Jong Hoon ^a   Choi, Key Sun ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b KORTERM BOLA   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Machine learning; Machine translation; Machine transliteration; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ALPHABETICAL SYSTEM; CHARACTER GENERATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 26044454624     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.7.1737     Document Type: Article

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