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TRANSLIT: A Large Name Transliteration Resource
TRANSLIT is A Large Name Transliteration Resource. If you find this code useful in your research, please consider citing:
@inproceedings{benitesLREC2020,
Author = {Fernando Benites, Gilbert François Duivesteijn, Pius von Däniken, Mark Cieliebak}
Title = {Large Name Transliteration Resource},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)},
Year = {2020},
}
We merged together sources that now encompasses 3 Millions surfaces (names) of around 1.6 Million entities
We merged four data sources:
We also searched for lang tags of wikipedia for transliterations (wiki-all).
We merged multiple names of an entity and assigned a UUID to it. We saved all the gathered names/entities in the file TRANSLIT.json, in the artefacts directory.
| Dataset | # entities | # name variations | mean length of chars per name |
|---|---|---|---|
| JRC | 819'209 | 1'338'463 | 14.3 |
| Geonames | 139'549 | 758'274 | 10.6 |
| SubWikiLang | 609'420 | 1'376'446 | 10.3 |
| En-Ar | 15'858 | 31'716 | 4.4 |
| Wiki-lang-all | 122'180 | 144'588 | 17.0 |
| TRANSLIT (all) | 1'655'972 | 3'008'239 | 11.8 |
Experiments
The experiments of the paper can be retraced with the use of the scripts abalation_study.py, classification_experiments.py and cnn_classification.py in the code directory. For their use, the data in artefact is used. To recreate this data, you need to download the original data (17G zipped) with download_data.sh. Afterward you should run run_preprare_data.sh.
Troubleshooting
the artefacts are quite large, so git lfs needs to be installed: $ sudo apt install git-lfs $ git lfs install --local $ git lfs fetch