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Orthographic Syllable as basic unit for SMT between Related Languages

2016/10/03 by Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Kunchukuttan, Anoop +1
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1610.00634

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Abstract

We explore the use of the orthographic syllable, a variable-length consonant-vowel sequence, as a basic unit of translation between related languages which use abugida or alphabetic scripts. We show that orthographic syllable level translation significantly outperforms models trained over other basic units (word, morpheme and character) when training over small parallel corpora.

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