<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 13px; ">Nizar Habash & Hayden Metsky: <a href="http://www.mt-archive.info/AMTA-2008-Habash.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Automatic learning of morphological variations for handling out-of-vocabulary terms in Urdu-English machine translation</a>.<span class="GramE"><i>AMTA-2008.</i></span><i> MT at work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas</i>, Waikiki, Hawai’i, 21-25 October 2008; pp.107-116.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">Here is a link to it:<br></span></font><a href="http://www.mt-archive.info/AMTA-2008-Habash.pdf">http://www.mt-archive.info/AMTA-2008-Habash.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards<br>Nizar<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jul 16, 2011, at 1:23, True Friend <<a href="mailto:true.friend2004@gmail.com">true.friend2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Well, currently I want to focus on alif and hay variation only. Because it is the most obvious and most confusing variation.<br>Regards<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font style="color:rgb(51, 102, 255)" size="4"><b>Muhammad Shakir Aziz</b></font><span style="color:rgb(51, 102, 255)"> </span><font style="color:rgb(51, 102, 255)" size="4"><b><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">محمد شاکر عزیز</span></b></font><br style="color:rgb(51, 102, 255)">
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