Report of NEWS 2009 machine transliteration shared task

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 1-18

  Li, Haizhou ^a   Kumaran, A ^b   Pervouchine, Vladimir ^a   Zhang, Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; COMPARISON AND ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; NAMED ENTITIES; PERFORMANCE METRICES; RESEARCH AREAS; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; STATE OF THE ART; TRANSLITERATION SYSTEM;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85121253593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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