Finite-state Transducers (FST) can be very efficient to implement inter-dialectal transliteration. We illustrate this on the Hindi and Urdu language pair. FSTs can also be used fo...
M. G. Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhatt...
We present a novel approach to integrate transliteration into Hindi-to-Urdu statistical machine translation. We propose two probabilistic models, based on conditional and joint pr...
Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, He...
We use robust and fast Finite-State Machines (FSMs) to solve scriptural translation problems. We describe a phonetico-morphotactic pivot UIT (universal intermediate transcription)...
M. G. Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhatt...
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...