Bootstrapping a stochastic transducer for Arabic-English transliteration extraction

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 864-871

  Sherif, Tarek ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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SIMILARITY METRICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

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