Back Transliteration from Japanese to English using Target English Context
Back Transliteration from Japanese to English using Target English Context
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使用目标英语上下文从日语回译为英语
DOI：
10.3115/1220355.1220474
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发表时间：
2004
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通讯作者：
Hideki Tanaka
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作者：
Isao Goto;Naoto Katoh;T. Ehara;Hideki Tanaka
本文提出了一种专有名词自动回译的方法，将日语音译单词恢复为原始英语单词。英语单词是由一系列字母组成的；因此，我们的方法可以创建未在词典或英语单词列表中注册的新英语单词。当片假名字符被转换为英文字母时，存在多种字母字符候选。为了确保充分的转换，所提出的方法使用目标英语上下文来计算英语字符或字符串对应于日语片假名字符或字符串的概率。我们通过人名回音译实验证实了使用目标英语上下文的有效性。
This paper proposes a method of automatic back transliteration of proper nouns, in which a Japanese transliterated-word is restored to the original English word. The English words are created from a sequence of letters; thus our method can create new English words that are not registered in dictionaries or English word lists. When a katakana character is converted into English letters, there are various candidates of alphabetic characters. To ensure adequate conversion, the proposed method uses a target English context to calculate the probability of an English character or string corresponding to a Japanese katakana character or string. We confirmed the effectiveness of using the target English context by an experiment of personal-name back transliteration.