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Report of NEWS 2012 Machine Transliteration Shared Task

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Abstract

This report documents the Machine Transliteration Shared Task conducted as a part of the Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2012), an ACL 2012 workshop. The shared task features machine transliteration of proper names from English to 11 languages and from 3 languages to English. In total, 14 tasks are provided. 7 teams participated in the evaluations. Finally, 57 standard and 1 non-standard runs are submitted, where diverse transliteration methodologies are explored and reported on the evaluation data. We report the results with 4 performance metrics. We believe that the shared task has successfully achieved its objective by providing a common benchmarking platform for the research community to evaluate the state-of-the-art technologies that benefit the future research and development.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2012 Named Entity Workshop, NEWS 2012 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012
EditorsMin Zhang, Haizhou Li, A Kumaran
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages10-20
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284404
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event4th Named Entity Workshop, NEWS 2012 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 12 Jul 2012 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference4th Named Entity Workshop, NEWS 2012 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period12/07/12 → …

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