Learning Phoneme Mappings for Transliteration without Parallel Data

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  • Sujith Ravi
  • Kevin Knight
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We present a method for performing machine transliteration without any parallel resources. We frame the transliteration task as a decipherment problem and show that it is possible to learn cross-language phoneme mapping tables using only monolingual resources. We compare various methods and evaluate their accuracies on a standard name transliteration task.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009