Machine transliteration: A Review of Literature

Machine transliteration: A Review of Literature

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Volume-37 Number-6
Year of Publication : 2016
Authors : Kanwaljit Kaur
DOI :  10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V37P257

Citation 

Kanwaljit Kaur"Machine transliteration: A Review of Literature", International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), V37(6),327-336 July 2016. ISSN:2231-5381. www.ijettjournal.org. published by seventh sense research group

Abstract
Machine transliteration is an emerging research area which converts words from one language to another without losing its phonological characteristics. Transliteration is a supporting tool for machine translation and Cross language information retrieval. Transliteration is mainly used for handling named entities and out of vocabulary words in a machine translation system. It preserves the phonetic structure of the words. This paper discusses the various challenges, approaches and existing systems in transliteration. The major challenges in developing a transliteration system are missing sounds, zero or multiple character mappings, differences between scripts etc. The approaches for the transliteration system can be phoneme based, grapheme based or combination of both. Few researches that have taken place in the field of transliteration are listed in this paper, although the list may not be exhaustive.

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Keywords
Transliteration, Machine translation, Cross Language Information Retrieval, Named Entities.