A machine transliteration model based on correspondence between graphemes and phonemes

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 185-208

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

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Grapheme and phoneme; Information retrieval; Machine transliteration; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS;

GRAPHEMES; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; PHONEMES; TRANSLITERATION MODEL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846623181     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1194936.1194938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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