Name transliteration with bidirectional perceptron edit models

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 132-135

  Freitag, Dayne ^a   Wang, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIGRAMS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; PERFORMANCE; TRAINING DATA; TWO WAYS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85121246474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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