Measuring similarity between transliterations against noise data

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Hsu, Chung Chian ^a   Chen, Chien Hsing ^a   Shih, Tien Teng ^a   Chen, Chun Kai ^a  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese transliteration; Cross lingual information retrieval; Grapheme; Phoneme; Pinyin; Romanization; Similarity comparison; Speech signal processing

Indexed keywords

CHINESE TRANSLITERATION; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NOISE WORDS; ROMANIZATION; SIMILARITY COMPARISON; SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATA REDUCTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 34247186442     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1227850.1227855     Document Type: Article

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