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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Generating diverse katakana variants based on phonemic mapping
In Japanese, it is quite common for the same word to be written in several different ways. This is especially true for katakana words which are typically used for transliterating ...
Kazuhiro Seki, Hiroyuki Hattori, Kuniaki Uehara
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Automatically Harvesting Katakana-English Term Pairs from Search Engine Query Logs
This paper describes a method of extracting katakana words and phrases, along with their English counterparts from non-aligned monolingual web search engine query logs. The method...
Eric Brill, Gary Kacmarcik, Chris Brockett
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Web-based acquisition of Japanese katakana variants
This paper describes a method of detecting Japanese Katakana variants from a large corpus. Katakana words, which are mainly used as loanwords, cause problems with information retr...
Takeshi Masuyama, Hiroshi Nakagawa