ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Proper name translation in cross-language information retrieval
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Corpus-based Pinyin name resolution
SIGHAN '02 Proceedings of the first SIGHAN workshop on Chinese language processing - Volume 18
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To be unambiguous about a Chinese geographic name represented in English text as Pinyin, one needs to recover the name in Chinese characters. We present our approach to this back-transliteration problem based on processes such as bilingual geographic name lookup, name suggestion using place name character and pair frequencies, and confirmation via a collection of monolingual names or the WWW. Evaluation shows that about 48% to 72% of the correct names can be recovered as the top candidate, and 82% to 86% within top ten, depending on the processes employed.