Symphonym: Universal Phonetic Embeddings for Cross-Script Name Matching

ArXi:2601.06932v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Matching place names across writing systems is a persistent obstacle to the integration of multilingual geographic sources, whether modern gazetteers, medieval itineraries, or colonial-era surveys. Existing approaches depend on language-specific phonetic algorithms or romanisation steps that discard phonetic information, and none generalises across script boundaries.