We present a method for learning to find English to Chinese transliterations on the Web. In our approach, proper nouns are expanded into new queries aimed at maximizing the probab...
Transliteration of new named entity is important for information retrieval that crosses two or multiple language. Rule-based machine transliteration is not satisfactory, since dif...
Most foreign names are transliterated into Chinese, Japanese or Korean with approximate phonetic equivalents. The transliteration is usually achieved through intermediate phonemic...
We propose a novel HMM-based framework to accurately transliterate unseen named entities. The framework leverages features in letteralignment and letter n-gram pairs learned from ...
Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian R. Lane, Stephan Vogel