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English-Korean machine transliteration by combining statistical model and web search

  • Hyun Je Song*
  • , Seong Bae Park
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Kyungpook National University

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Abstract

Machine transliteration is an automatic method for translating source language words into phonetically equivalent target language ones. Many previous methods were devoted to translating the word that only traces phonological phenomena of the source language and the resulting showed good performance. However, there are a lot of names originated from not only the source language but also non-source languages. The existing methods fail in showing high accuracy when the names comes from the non-source language since they focus on names in source language. To deal with this problem, this paper describes a hybrid method which combines statistical model and web search for improving machine transliteration performance. The proposed method constructs a base system that stands on a statistical model to produce candidates, then expands candidates from web documents. With these candidates, it finds the most appropriate answer without any external resources. The experimental results present that the proposed method achieves higher performance than statistical model and web search respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIMECS 2011 - International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2011
Pages15-20
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2011
EventInternational MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2011, IMECS 2011 - Kowloon, Hong Kong
Duration: 2011.03.162011.03.18

Publication series

NameIMECS 2011 - International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2011
Volume1

Conference

ConferenceInternational MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2011, IMECS 2011
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityKowloon
Period11.03.1611.03.18

Keywords

  • Machine transliteration
  • Statistical model
  • Web search

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