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Dudley North visits North London: Learning When to Transliterate to Arabic
journal contribution
posted on 2013-06-09, 00:00 authored by Mahmoud Azab, Houda BouamorHouda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit, Kemal OflazerKemal OflazerWe report the results of our work on automating
the transliteration decision of named entities
for English to Arabic machine translation.
We construct a classification-based
framework to automate this decision, evaluate
our classifier both in the limited news and
the diverse Wikipedia domains, and achieve
promising accuracy. Moreover, we demonstrate
a reduction of translation error and
an improvement in the performance of an
English-to-Arabic machine translation system.