NEWS 2018 Whitepaper
Nancy F. Chen, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li · 2018
Transliteration is defined as the phonetic translation of names across languages.Transliteration of Named Entities (NEs) is a necessary subtask in many applications, such as machine translation, corpus alignment, cross-language IR, information extraction and automatic lexicon acquisition.All such systems call for highperformance transliteration, which is the focus of the shared task in NEWS 2018.