Web-Based Transliteration of Person Names

  • Authors:
  • Satoshi Sato

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We have developed a web-based transliteration system of person names; from a person name written in English (Latin script), the system produces its Japanese (Katakana) transliteration extracted from the Web. Experiments have shown that the performance is sufficiently high: for 89.4% of English person names, the system produced one or more acceptable Japanese transliterations; 98.5% of system’s outputs were acceptable transliterations. This system was used for automatic compilation of an English-Japanese person-name lexicon with 406K entries.