English to Urdu Transliteration System
Abbas Raza Ali, Madiha Ijaz · 2009
Urdu language processing applications encounter non-Urdu text specifically English text frequently. The accuracy of these systems e.g. machine translation, text-to-speech etc. is highly undermined as they are unable to handle English text. One possibility could be addition of multilingual language processing capabilities in Urdu language processing applications so that they may handle English text also along with Urdu but this approach is quite taxing. Another approach to handle English text is to transliterate it into Urdu automatically and then pass it on to the Urdu language processing applications. This paper describes English to Urdu transliteration system. First the mapping rules that are used to generate Urdu text from English transcription are discussed then syllabification, manual transliteration and Urduization phase is described and finally the issues related to Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) are discussed.