Patent ID: 9176936
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An orthographic method for transliteration pair matching, said method comprising: extracting feature sequences, as individual letters separated by spaces, from a digital representation of a proper name in a first language to obtain a first orthographic feature sequence set; extracting feature sequences, as individual letters separated by spaces, from a digital representation of a proper name in a second language to obtain a second orthographic feature sequence set, said digital representation of said proper name in said first language and said digital representation of said proper name in said second language comprising a transliteration pair; comparing said first and second orthographic feature sequence sets to determine a similarity score, based on a similarity model comprising a plurality of conditional probabilities of known orthographic feature sequences in said first language given known orthographic feature sequences in said second language and a plurality of conditional probabilities of known orthographic feature sequences in said second language given known orthographic feature sequences in said first language; and based on at least one threshold value, determining whether said transliteration pair belong to an identical actual proper name.