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Detection of Loan Words in Uyghur Texts

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Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2014)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 496))

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For low-resource languages like Uyghur, data sparseness is always a serious problem in related information processing, especially in some tasks based on parallel texts. To enrich bilingual resources, we detect Chinese and Russian loan words from Uyghur texts according to phonetic similarities between a loan word and its corresponding donor language word. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on perceptron model to discover loan words from Uyghur texts, which consider the detection of loan words in Uyghur as a classification procedure. The experimental results show that our method is capable of detecting the Chinese and Russian loan words in Uyghur Texts effectively.

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Mi, C., Yang, Y., Wang, L., Li, X., Dalielihan, K. (2014). Detection of Loan Words in Uyghur Texts. In: Zong, C., Nie, JY., Zhao, D., Feng, Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. NLPCC 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 496. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45924-9_10

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