doi: 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.1.436
Character Mapping for Cross-Language
Mazin Al-Shuaili
,
Marco Carvalho
- Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA.
Abstract
Out-of-vocabulary words are a significantchallenge for cross-language information retrieval. Names ofpeople constitute a large portion of out-of-vocabulary words, asthere are different methodologies to match names that arewritten in various languages. Some of the methods convertnames to phonetic codes, such as Soundex, or transliteratenames from one language to another. We propose a technique tomap characters automatically from different languages intoEnglish, without human interference and without priorknowledge of the language. This technique can provide astatistical or phonetic model that can be used later for namecomparisons or named transliterations into a cross-language.The method also generates Soundex codes for the sourcelanguage based on English Soundex codes. We implement thistechnique for five languages: Arabic, Russian, Urdu, Hindi, andPersian. Five Soundex tables are provided as the result of thistechnique.
Keywords
- CLIR
- data linkage
- IR
- name matching
How to Cite
Mazin Al-Shuaili and Marco Carvalho, "Character Mapping for Cross-Language," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 18-22, 2016. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.1.436
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Copyright © 2016 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).