Experimental studies using statistical algorithms on transliterating phoneme sequences for English-Chinese name translation

• Main Authors: GAO, Wei, WONG, Kam-Fai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Machine Transliteration; Finite State Transducer; Noisy Channel; Maximum Entropy; Phoneme; Fertility; Evaluation; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4608
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Machine transliteration is automatic generation of the phonetic equivalents in a target language given a source language term, which is useful in many cross language applications. Transliteration between far distant languages, e.g. English and Chinese, is challenging because their phonological dissi...