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ONs consist not only of common generic words but also names, rare words, abbreviations and business and industry jargon. ONs are a sub-class of named entity (NE) phrases, which convey key information in text. As such, the correct translation of ONs is critical for machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval. The existing Chinese\u2013Uyghur neural machine translation systems have performed poorly when applied to ON translation tasks. As there are no publicly available Chinese\u2013Uyghur ON translation corpora, an ON translation corpus is developed here, which includes 191,641 ON translation pairs. A word segmentation approach involving characterization, tagged characterization, byte pair encoding (BPE) and syllabification is proposed here for ON translation tasks. A recurrent neural network (RNN) attention framework and transformer are adapted here for ON translation tasks with different sequence granularities. The experimental results indicate that the transformer model not only outperforms the RNN attention model but also benefits from the proposed word segmentation approach. In addition, a Chinese\u2013Uyghur ON translation system is developed here to automatically generate new translation pairs. This work significantly improves Chinese\u2013Uyghur ON translation and can be applied to improve Chinese\u2013Uyghur machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval. 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