Improving transliteration accuracy using word-origin detection and lexicon lookup

NEWS 2009 - 2009 Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration at the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 84-87

  Khapra, Mitesh M ^a   Bhattacharyya, Pushpak ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LOOKUPS; MODEL-BASED OPC; POST-PROCESSING; PRE-PROCESSING; PROCESSING MODULES; RANKING MODEL; RE-RANKING;

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EID: 77952308265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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