Do OpenNMT support machine transliteration?

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Hi Everyone,

I am working on neural machine translation of English to Asian languages.

I have a question:

  • Can we apply machine transliteration in OpenNMT ? if yes, is there any tutorial or document ?
2

Hi,

Sure, just make sure the words you want to transliterate are correctly transliterated in your training data.

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Thanks guillaumenkln for feedback.

Can you please provide a sample sentence. ?
I just want to know about the format of the transliteration in training data.

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There is no specific format. If your parallel sentences contain transliterations, the model will learn to translate and transliterate.

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Hi guillaumenkln, @guillaumekln
what happens in the case when I want to transliterate some verbs which I am using as noun. My model is definitely trained on translating that verb , but in some cases I want the transliteration of the word. Any work around for this? eg. “Winners Guide” it is a name of a book. My model is translating the word Winners and guide , but in my case since it is the name of the book, I want it to be transliterated and not translated.

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Hi,

The easiest way is just to provide enough examples in the training data to translate it correctly (the context and casing will be important here).

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actually in Hindi language we don’t have casing. That’s the real problem.

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Have a look at polyglot transliteration. It should support Hindi.