Transliteration Experiments on Chinese and Arabic
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چکیده
We report the results of our transliteration experiments with language-specific adaptations in the context of two language pairs: English to Chinese, and Arabic to English. In particular, we investigate a syllable-based Pinyin intermediate representation for Chinese, and a letter mapping for Arabic.
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