Word-Transliteration Alignment
Tracy Lin, Chien-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang · 2003
The named-entity phrases in free text represent a formidable challenge to text analysis. Translating a named-entity is important for the task of Cross Language Information Retrieval and Question Answering. However, both tasks are not easy to handle because named-entities found in free text are often not listed in a monolingual or bilingual dictionary. Although it is possible to identify and translate named-entities on the fly without a list of proper names and transliterations, an extensive list certainly will ensure the high accuracy rate of text analysis. We use a list of proper names and transliterations to train a Machine Transliteration Model. With the model it is possible to extract proper names and their transliterations in a bilingual corpus with high average precision and recall rates.