Whitepaper of NEWS 2012 shared task on machine transliteration

Authors:
Min Zhang;Haizhou Li;Ming Liu;A Kumaran
Affiliations:
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore;Multilingual Systems Research, Microsoft Research India
Venue:
NEWS '12 Proceedings of the 4th Named Entity Workshop
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Transliteration is defined as phonetic translation of names across languages. Transliteration of Named Entities (NEs) is necessary in many applications, such as machine translation, corpus alignment, cross-language IR, information extraction and automatic lexicon acquisition. All such systems call for high-performance transliteration, which is the focus of shared task in the NEWS 2012 workshop. The objective of the shared task is to promote machine transliteration research by providing a common benchmarking platform for the community to evaluate the state-of-the-art technologies.