Transliteration Systems across Indian Languages Using Parallel Corpora
Rishabh Kumar Srivastava, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2013
Hindi is the lingua-franca of India. Al-though all non-native speakers can com-municate well in Hindi, there are only a few who can read and write in it. In this work, we aim to bridge this gap by building transliteration systems that could transliter-ate Hindi into at-least 7 other Indian lan-guages. The transliteration systems are de-veloped as a reading aid for non-Hindi read-ers. The systems are trained on the translit-eration pairs extracted automatically from a parallel corpora. All the transliteration sys-tems perform satisfactorily for a non-Hindi reader to understand a Hindi text. 1