University of Melbourne
Date and time: 11.30am - 12.30pm, Friday 17th Oct, 2008
Venue: 10.08.03 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 3)
Abstract:
Machine transliteration is the automatic process of
transforming a word -- usually proper names and technical terms -- from
a source language to a target language. This is
particularly challenging when source and target languages do not share the same
script. Most
research in this area is centered
around methods derived from machine translation, downgraded from the word or
phrase level to the character
or substring level. A brief history of approaches
applied for a variety of language-pairs will be introduced in this talk. It
then focuses on
algorithms developed for machine transliteration between English
and Persian.
About the speaker:
Dr Sarvnaz Karimi is a postdoctoral
research fellow at NICTA Victoria research laboratory located at the University
of Melbourne. The main focus of
her current research is language processing and text
information retrieval for biomedical texts. She completed her PhD in computer
science in the field of
machine transliteration at RMIT University.
Organizer: Dr. Falk Scholer