A Myanmar (Burmese)-English Named Entity Transliteration Dictionary (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Currently, there are no data available for the transcription of borrowed English words in Myanmar . lack of resources is a problem for many understudied languages . |
| Approach: | They construct a dictionary of Myanmar-English transliteration instances using a CC BY-NC-SA license. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the statistical model significantly on the character level. |
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