@InProceedings{chen-EtAl:2018:NEWS20181,
  author    = {Chen, Nancy  and  Duan, Xiangyu  and  Zhang, Min  and  Banchs, Rafael E.  and  Li, Haizhou},
  title     = {NEWS 2018 Whitepaper},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Melbourne, Australia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {47--54},
  abstract  = {Transliteration is defined as phonetic translation of names across languages. Transliteration of Named Entities (NEs) is necessary in many applications, such as machine translation, corpus alignment, cross-language IR, information extraction and automatic lexicon acquisition. All such systems call for high-performance transliteration, which is the focus of shared task in the NEWS 2018 workshop. The objective of the shared task is to promote machine transliteration research by providing a common benchmarking platform for the community to evaluate the state-of-the-art technologies.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-2408}
}