Learning better transliterations

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-184

  Pasternack, Jeff ^a   Roth, Dan ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi lingual information retrieval; Probabilistic models; Translation; Transliteration

Indexed keywords

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MULTI-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PARAMETER SPACES; PERCEPTRON; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SUB-STRINGS; SUBSTRING; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRAINING EXAMPLE; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; TARGETS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 74549186548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1645978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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