acl acl2011 acl2011-232 acl2011-232-reference knowledge-graph by maker-knowledge-mining
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Author: Yun Huang ; Min Zhang ; Chew Lim Tan
Abstract: Machine transliteration is defined as automatic phonetic translation of names across languages. In this paper, we propose synchronous adaptor grammar, a novel nonparametric Bayesian learning approach, for machine transliteration. This model provides a general framework without heuristic or restriction to automatically learn syllable equivalents between languages. The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art EMbased model in the English to Chinese transliteration task.