Collapsed consonant and vowel models: New approaches for English-Persian transliteration and back-transliteration

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 648-655

  Karimi, Sarvnaz ^a   Scholer, Falk ^a   Turpin, Andrew ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; BACK-TRANSLITERATION; LANGUAGE PAIRS; NEW MODEL; NOVEL ALGORITHM; PERSIANS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860540312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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