A Statistical Model for Automatic Extraction of Korean Transliterated Foreign Words

In this paper, we will describe a Korean transliterated foreign word extraction algorithm. In the proposed method, we reformulate the foreign word extraction problem as a syllable-tagging problem such that each syllable is tagged with a foreign syllable tag or a pure Korean syllable tag. Syllable sequences of Korean strings are modelled by Hidden Markov Model whose state represents a character with binary marking to indicate whether the syllable is part of a transliterated foreign word or not. The proposed method extracts a transliterated foreign word with high recall rate and precision rate. Moreover, our method shows good performance even with small-sized training corpora.