English-to-Chinese Transliteration with Phonetic Back-transliteration. (arXiv:2112.10321v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10321

Transliteration is a task of translating named entities from a language to
another, based on phonetic similarity. The task has embraced deep learning
approaches in recent years, yet, most ignore the phonetic features of the
involved languages. In this work, we incorporate phonetic information into
neural networks in two ways: we synthesize extra data using forward and
back-translation but in a phonetic manner; and we pre-train models on a
phonetic task before learning transliteration. Our experiments include three
language pairs …

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