Report of NEWS 2018 Named Entity Transliteration Shared Task

Nancy Chen, Rafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Haizhou Li


Abstract
This report presents the results from the Named Entity Transliteration Shared Task conducted as part of The Seventh Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2018) held at ACL 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Similar to previous editions of NEWS, the Shared Task featured 19 tasks on proper name transliteration, including 13 different languages and two different Japanese scripts. A total of 6 teams from 8 different institutions participated in the evaluation, submitting 424 runs, involving different transliteration methodologies. Four performance metrics were used to report the evaluation results. The NEWS shared task on machine transliteration has successfully achieved its objectives by providing a common ground for the research community to conduct comparative evaluations of state-of-the-art technologies that will benefit the future research and development in this area.
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W18-2409
Volume:
Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Nancy Chen, Rafael E. Banchs, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li
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NEWS
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
55–73
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-2409
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-2409
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Nancy Chen, Rafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, and Haizhou Li. 2018. Report of NEWS 2018 Named Entity Transliteration Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop, pages 55–73, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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