Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants

Bhagat, Rahul; Hovy, Eduard H.

Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants

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Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1570-1574.

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.

Rahul Bhagat, and Eduard H. Hovy. 2007. Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-07. IJCAI, 1570–1574. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/253

@inproceedings{ijcai2007p253,
  title     = {Phonetic Models for Generating Spelling Variants},
  author    = {Bhagat, Rahul and Hovy, Eduard H.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-07}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
  editor    = {Ramon López de Mántaras},
  pages     = {1570--1574},
  year      = {2007},
  url       = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/253},
}

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