Multilingual transliteration using feature based phonetic method

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 112-119

  Yoon, Su Youn ^a   Kim, Kyoung Young ^a   Sproat, Richard ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARABLE CORPORA; FEATURE-BASED; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; NAMED ENTITIES; SCORING METHODS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860507260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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