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Chinese-Japanese Search Query Translation System Chenhui Chu (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University) Keiji Shinzato (Rakuten Institute of Technology). Overview. Chinese2Alphabet Translation. Motivation
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Chinese-Japanese Search Query Translation System Chenhui Chu (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University) Keiji Shinzato (Rakuten Institute of Technology) Overview Chinese2Alphabet Translation • Motivation • Connect Rakuten group's services among different countries and improve the distribution • Search results example for “拉菲庄园” • Remarkable points • High translation accuracy • Domain & language independent Chinese2Alphabet Translation Alphabet2JapaneseTranslation • Alphabet n-gram candidate score calculation 拉菲庄园 (Chateau Lafite) ・ ・ ・ Web Search API シャトー ラフィット(Chateau Lafite) ・ ・ ・ Web Search API (1) Chateau Lafite 拉菲庄园 シャトー ラフィット Input Output Alphabet2Japanese Translation Experiments p • Search results example for “Chateau Lafite” • Settings • Yahoo search API • 102 wine name pairs from Rakuten China and Japan • Evaluation Pairs • Japanese n-gram candidate score calculation • Only consider Katakana with the same length • Full Match examples • When Katakana with the same length does not exist (2) • Null Match examples • sim_rank: rank of similarity between Katakana n-gram and Alphabet calculated using AlphaBeta transliteration model • n_gram_rank: rank of n-gram scores calculated using (1)