Improving machine transliteration performance by using multiple transliteration models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4285 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 85-96

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; HYBRID MODEL; INFORMATION SOURCES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; SUPPORTING TOOL; TRANSLITERATION MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 77049085003     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11940098_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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