Inducing Search Keys for Name Filtering

This paper describes ETK (Ensemble of Transformation based Keys) a new algorithm for inducing search keys for name filtering. ETK has the low computational cost and ability to filter by phonetic similarity characteristic of phonetic keys but is adaptable to alternative similarity models. A preliminary empirical evaluation suggests that ETK may be well-suited for phonetic filtering applications such as recognizing alternative cross-lingual transliterations.1

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: Karl Branting
• Keywords: EMNLP 2007, Natural Language Processing, Phonetic Keys, Phonetic Similarity Characteristic, Transformation Based Keys