Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants
Abstract
Proper names, whether English or non-English, have several different spellings when transliterated from a non-English source language into English. Knowing the different variations can significantly improve the results of name-searches on various source texts, especially when recall is important. In this paper we propose two novel phonetic models to generate numerous candidate variant spellings of a name. Our methods show threefold improvement over the baseline and generate four times as many good name variants compared to a human while maintaining a respectable precision of 0.68.
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Bhagat and Hovy. "Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.Markdown
[Bhagat and Hovy. "Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2007/bhagat2007ijcai-phonetic/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{bhagat2007ijcai-phonetic,
title = {{Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants}},
author = {Bhagat, Rahul and Hovy, Eduard H.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2007},
pages = {1570-1575},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2007/bhagat2007ijcai-phonetic/}
}