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<Paper uid="W03-1508">
  <Title>Transliteration of Proper Names in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> 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 &amp;quot;translate&amp;quot; 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 sub-word units of pronunciation for Chinese.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We then use another statistical translation model to map the initial/final sequence to Chinese characters. We also present an evaluation of this module in retrieval of Mandarin spoken documents from the TDT corpus using English text queries.</Paragraph>
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