Collapsed consonant and vowel models: New approaches for English-Persian transliteration and backtransliteration (2007)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL2007 |
| Citations: | 5 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Karimi07collapsedconsonant,
author = {Sarvnaz Karimi and Falk Scholer and Andrew Turpin},
title = {Collapsed consonant and vowel models: New approaches for English-Persian transliteration and backtransliteration},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL2007},
year = {2007},
pages = {648--655}
}
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Abstract
We propose a novel algorithm for English to Persian transliteration. Previous methods proposed for this language pair apply a word alignment tool for training. By contrast, we introduce an alignment algorithm particularly designed for transliteration. Our new model improves the English to Persian transliteration accuracy by 14% over an n-gram baseline. We also propose a novel back-transliteration method for this language pair, a previously unstudied problem. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm leads to an absolute improvement of 25 % over standard transliteration approaches. 1
