Combining MDL transliteration training with discriminative modeling

  • Authors:
  • Dmitry Zelenko

  • Affiliations:
  • Fairfax, VA

  • Venue:
  • NEWS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a transliteration system that introduces minimum description length training for transliteration and combines it with discriminative modeling. We apply the proposed approach to transliteration from English to 8 non-Latin scripts, with promising results.