Learning phoneme mappings for transliteration without parallel data

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 37-45

  Ravi, Sujith ^a   Knight, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CROSS LANGUAGES; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; PARALLEL DATA; PHONEME MAPPINGS;

MAPPING;

EID: 77950937371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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