Summary of the paper
| Title | Exploiting Lexical Resources for Disambiguating CJK and Arabic Orthographic Variants |
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| Authors | Jack Halpern |
| Abstract | The orthographical complexities of Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) and Arabic pose a special challenge to developers of NLP applications. These difficulties are exacerbated by the lack of a standardized orthography in these languages, especially the highly irregular Japanese orthography and the ambiguities of the Arabic script. This paper focuses on CJK and Arabic orthographic variation and provides a brief analysis of the linguistic issues. The basic premise is that statistical methods by themselves are inadequate, and that linguistic knowledge supported by large-scale lexical databases should play a central role in achieving high accuracy in disambiguating and normalizing orthographic variants. |
| Language | Multiple languages |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Machine Translation, SpeechToSpeech Translation, Morphology |
Full paper |
Exploiting Lexical Resources for Disambiguating CJK and Arabic Orthographic Variants |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{HALPERN08.109, author = {Jack Halpern}, title = {Exploiting Lexical Resources for Disambiguating CJK and Arabic Orthographic Variants}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |