@inproceedings{789d61f2ea0242bc84d01e0717724948,
title = "Arabic to English person name transliteration using Twitter",
abstract = "Social media outlets are providing new opportunities for harvesting valuable resources. We present a novel approach for mining data from Twitter for the purpose of building transliteration resources and systems. Such resources are crucial in translation and retrieval tasks. We demonstrate the benefits of the approach on Arabic to English transliteration. The contribution of this approach includes the size of data that can be collected and exploited within the span of a limited time; the approach is very generic and can be adopted to other languages and the ability of the approach to cope with new transliteration phenomena and trends. A statistical transliteration system built using this data improved a comparable system built from Wikipedia wikilinks data.",
keywords = "Arabic language variations, Named entities, Social media, Transliteration, Tweet normalization",
author = "Hamdy Mubarak and Ahmed Abdelali",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
pages = "351--355",
editor = "Nicoletta Calzolari and Khalid Choukri and Helene Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Marko Grobelnik and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016",
note = "10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 ; Conference date: 23-05-2016 Through 28-05-2016",
}