Improving named entity translation combining phonetic and semantic similarities

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 281-288

  Huang, Fei ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONTEXT VECTOR; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY TRANSLATION; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; SEMANTIC MODELLING; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLITERATION MODELS; VECTOR SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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