This shows that although names may have monolingual origin, there are hidden factors which can allow our model to succeed, possibly related to gender or convention.
we use z = (z 1 , ..., z I ), z i ∈ {1, ..., K} to indicate the cluster of each transliteration pair x i in the training set and θ = (θ 1 , ..., θ K ) to represent the parameters of the component associated with each cluster.