Generating phonemes of loan words using two converters

A computer system for estimating phonemes for a word written in a different language, by executing program instructions, the computer system comprising:

• a memory tangibly storing the program instructions;
• a processor in communications with the memory for executing the program instructions, wherein the processor is configured to:
• receive a sequence of graphemes of a given word in a source language;
• convert the sequence of the graphemes in the source language into a sequence of phonemes in the source language;
• generate one or more sequences of phonemes in a target language from the sequence of the phonemes in the source language by using a trained neural network model employing a loanword dictionary of target language phonemes;
• and
• determine one sequence of phonemes in the target language for the given word.

A computer system for estimating graphemes of a word from phonemes in a different language, by executing program instructions, the computer system comprising:

• a memory tangibly storing the program instructions;
• a processor in communications with the memory for executing the program instructions, wherein the processor is configured to:
• receive a sequence of phonemes in a source language;
• generate one or more sequences of phonemes in a target language from the sequence of the phonemes in the source language by using a trained neural network model employing a loanword dictionary of target language phonemes;
• convert at least one sequence of the phonemes in the target language into at least one sequence of graphemes in the target language;
• and
• identify a target word written in the target language for the sequence of the phonemes in the source language.

A computer program product for estimating phonemes for a word written in a different language, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform the method comprising:

• receiving a sequence of graphemes of a given word in a source language;
• converting the sequence of the graphemes in the source language into a sequence of phonemes in the source language;
• generating one or more sequences of phonemes in a target language from the sequence of the phonemes in the source language by using a trained neural network model employing a loanword dictionary of target language phonemes;
• and
• determining one sequence of phonemes in the target language for the given word.