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Transliteration in Any Language with Surrogate Languages

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arxiv 1609.04325 v1 pith:HLR2EXRV submitted 2016-09-14 cs.CL

Transliteration in Any Language with Surrogate Languages

Stephen Mayhew , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Dan Roth This is my paper
classification cs.CL
keywords languagelanguageswikipediaintroducerankingsurrogatetrainingtransliteration
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We introduce a method for transliteration generation that can produce transliterations in every language. Where previous results are only as multilingual as Wikipedia, we show how to use training data from Wikipedia as surrogate training for any language. Thus, the problem becomes one of ranking Wikipedia languages in order of suitability with respect to a target language. We introduce several task-specific methods for ranking languages, and show that our approach is comparable to the oracle ceiling, and even outperforms it in some cases.

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