Automatic English-Chinese name transliteration for development of multilingual resources

Authors:
Stephen Wan;Cornelia Maria Verspoor
Affiliations:
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia;Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Venue:
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Year:
1998

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe issues in the translation of proper names from English to Chinese which we have faced in constructing a system for multilingual text generation supporting both languages. We introduce an algorithm for mapping from English names to Chinese characters based on (1) heuristics about relationships between English spelling and pronunciation, and (2) consistent relationships between English phonemes and Chinese characters.