Simple Discriminative Training for Machine Transliteration
Canasai Kruengkrai, Thatsanee Charoenporn, Virach Sornlertlamvanich
Abstract
In this paper, we describe our system used in the NEWS 2011 machine transliteration shared task.
Our system consists of two main components: simple strategies for generating training examples based
on character alignment, and discriminative training based on the Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm.
We submitted results for 10 language pairs on standard runs.
Our system achieves the best performance for English-to-Thai and English-to-Hebrew.
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