[Corpora-List] Which Statistical Test is Suitable

[Nizar Habash]

Hi, you may want to check out this publication on learning such alternation phenomena in Urdu from parallel data. Although the paper title mentions morphology, the technique covers orthographic variations.

Nizar Habash & Hayden Metsky: Automatic learning of morphological variations for handling out-of-vocabulary terms in Urdu-English machine translation.AMTA-2008. MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.107-116.

Here is a link to it:
http://www.mt-archive.info/AMTA-2008-Habash.pdf

Regards
Nizar


On Jul 16, 2011, at 1:23, True Friend <true.friend2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, currently I want to focus on alif and hay variation only. Because it is the most obvious and most confusing variation.
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