A machine transliteration tool between Uzbek alphabets
Abstract
Machine transliteration, as defined in this paper, is a process of automatically transforming written script of words from a source alphabet into words of another target alphabet within the same language, while preserving their meaning, as well as pronunciation. The main goal of this paper is to present a machine transliteration tool between three common scripts used in low-resource Uzbek language: the old Cyrillic, currently official Latin, and newly announced New Latin alphabets. The tool has been created using a combination of rule-based and fine-tuning approaches. The created tool is available as an open-source Python package, as well as a web-based application including a public API. To our knowledge, this is the first machine transliteration tool that supports the newly announced Latin alphabet of the Uzbek language.
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@article{arxiv.2205.09578,
title = {A machine transliteration tool between Uzbek alphabets},
author = {Ulugbek Salaev and Elmurod Kuriyozov and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.09578},
year = {2022}
}
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Preprint of a conference paper: The International Conference on Agglutinative Language Technologies as a challenge of Natural Language Processing (ALTNLP)