A language-independent transliteration schema using character aligned models at NEWS 2009

NEWS 2009 - 2009 Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration at the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 40-43

  Shishtla, Praneeth ^a   Surya Ganesh, V ^a   Subramaniam, Sethuramalingam ^a   Varma, Vasudeva ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CHARACTER LEVEL; DECODING PROCESS; EXPECTATIONS MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; POSTERIOR PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL ALIGNMENT MODELS; STATISTICAL TRANSLITERATION; TARGET WORDS; TRAINING PROCESS; WORD-PAIRS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85060012091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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