Unsupervised named entity transliteration using temporal and phonetic correlation

COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 250-257

  Tao, Tao ^a   Yoon, Su Youn ^a   Fister, Andrew ^a   Sproat, Richard ^a   Zhai, Cheng Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPARABLE CORPORA; NAMED ENTITIES; PHONETIC FEATURES; SCORING METHODS; SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSLITERATION METHOD;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053348383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610075.1610112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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