@InProceedings{daume08transliterate,
  author =       {Ulf Hermjakob and Kevin Knight and Hal {Daum\'e III}},
  title =        {Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation: Learning When to Transliterate},
  booktitle =    {Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year =         {2008},
  address =      {Columbus, OH},
  abstract =     {
    We present a method to transliterate names in the framework of
    end-to-end statistical machine translation.  The system is trained
    to learn when to transliterate.  For Ararbic to English MT, we 
    developed and trained a transliterator on a bitext of 7 million
    sentences and Google's English terabyte ngrams and achieved better
    name translation accuracy than 3 out of 4 professional
    translators.  The paper also includes a discussion of challenges
    in name translation evaluation.
  },
  keywords = {nlp},
  tagline = {We transliterate names in an end-to-end MT system, where names are explicitly tagged with there to transliterate or not. Our transliterator outperforms 3 of 4 human translators.},
  url = {http://pub.hal3.name/#daume08transliterate}
}