pinyinderived
Pinyinderived is an adjective used in linguistics and language technology to describe data, representations, or processes that originate from the Pinyin romanization system for Standard Mandarin. It usually refers to outputs or components that are produced by mapping Chinese characters (or words) to their pinyin spellings, or by applying pinyin-based phonological rules to text.
Etymology and scope. The term combines pinyin with derived, and it is not widely standardized or formally
Applications and examples. In natural language processing and information retrieval, pinyinderived tokens are used for indexing,
Limitations and notes. Because pinyin is one of several romanization schemes and because tonal information can
See also: Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin, Romanization of Chinese, Natural language processing.