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Exhibit A
DESCRIPTION OF DATA

Transliteration Training/Development/Testing data for NEWS 2009 Shared Task

The following transliteration data are released under the above agreement:

    * English-Hindi parallel names: 12K
          o Training: 9975
          o Development: 974
          o Testing: 1000
    * English-Tamil parallel names: Approximately 10K
          o Training: 7974
          o Development: 987
          o Testing: 1000
    * English-Kannada parallel names: Approximately 10K
          o Training: 7990
          o Development: 968
          o Testing: 1000
    * English-Arabic parallel names: Approximately 1K
          o Testing: 1000