The Egyptian Transliteration of Hittite Names

Semantic Transliteration of Personal Names

Words of foreign origin are referred to as borrowed words or loanwords. A loanword is usually imported to Chinese by phonetic transliteration if a translation is not easily available. Semantic transliteration is seen as a good tradition in introducing foreign words to Chinese. Not only does it preserve how a word sounds in the source language, it also carries forward the word's original semanti...

Machine Transliteration of Names in Arabic Texts

The Transliteration from Alphabet Queries to Japanese Product Names

There are some cases where the nonJapanese buyers are unable to find products they want through the Japanese shopping Web sites because they require Japanese queries. We propose to transliterate the inputs of the non-Japanese user, i.e., search queries written in English alphabets, into Japanese Katakana to solve this problem. In this research, the pairs of the nonJapanese search query which fa...

Transliteration of Proper Names in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

We address the problem of transliterating English names using Chinese orthography in support of cross-lingual speech and text processing applications. We demonstrate the application of statistical machine translation techniques to “translate” the phonemic representation of an English name, obtained by using an automatic text-to-speech system, to a sequence of initials and finals, commonly used ...

Phoneme-Based Transliteration of Foreign Names for OOV Problem

One problem seriously affecting CLIR performance is the processing of queries with embedded foreign names. A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation from English to Chinese ineffective. One way to solve this problem is not to rely on a dictionary alone but to adopt automatic translation according to pronunciation similarities, i.e. to map phonemes comprising an Engli...