Learning phoneme mappings for transliteration without parallel data

  • Authors:
  • Sujith Ravi;Kevin Knight

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California;University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California

  • Venue:
  • NAACL '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

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.