Backward Machine Transliteration by Learning Phonetic Similarity

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Lin, Wei Hao ^a   Chen, Hsin Hsi ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CROSS-LINGUAL; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; TRAINING CORPUS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85149132181     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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