Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts into Arabic Script Using Recurrent Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11405v2
• Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:08:53 GMT
• Title: Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts into Arabic Script Using Recurrent Neural Networks
• Authors: Ori Terner, Kfir Bar, Nachum Dershowitz
• Abstract summary: We train a model to automatically transliterate Judeo-Arabic texts into Arabic script. We employ a recurrent neural network (RNN), combined with the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss to deal with unequal input/output lengths. We obtain an improvement over the baseline 9.5% character error, achieving 2% error with our best configuration.
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• Abstract: We trained a model to automatically transliterate Judeo-Arabic texts into Arabic script, enabling Arabic readers to access those writings. We employ a recurrent neural network (RNN), combined with the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss to deal with unequal input/output lengths. This obligates adjustments in the training data to avoid input sequences that are shorter than their corresponding outputs. We also utilize a pretraining stage with a different loss function to improve network converge. Since only a single source of parallel text was available for training, we take advantage of the possibility of generating data synthetically. We train a model that has the capability to memorize words in the output language, and that also utilizes context for distinguishing ambiguities in the transliteration. We obtain an improvement over the baseline 9.5% character error, achieving 2% error with our best configuration. To measure the contribution of context to learning, we also tested word-shuffled data, for which the error rises to 2.5%.

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