Phonetic-based Forward Online Transliteration Tool from English to Tamil Language

Transliteration is the process of mapping the character of one language to the character of some other language based on its phonetics. India is very much diverse in languages where people speak different languages. Though they speak different languages, it might be difficult for them to read the script of those many languages. In a situation like this, transliteration process plays a major role. It helps in various Natural Language Processing applications such as Information retrieval, Machine translation, Speech recognition. These are NLP applications which make the computer understand the natural language as to how human being interprets. It helps in translating technical terms and proper names from one language to another language. Moreover, transliteration works have been carried out in languages such as Japanese, Chinese and English. But when considering Indian languages, especially Tamil language, very few recognizable works have been carried out. In this paper, transliteration process is carried out on Unicode Tamil characters. The phonetics-based forward list processing is implemented for transliterating from English language to Tamil language which yields promising results.

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Transliteration is the process of mapping the characters of one language to those of another language based on phonetics. This process is particularly important in India, where people speak a variety of languages and may struggle to read different scripts. Transliteration plays a crucial role in various Natural Language Processing applications, including information retrieval, machine translation, and speech recognition. While transliteration works have been carried out in languages like Japanese, Chinese, and English, there is limited research on Indian languages, especially Tamil. This paper focuses on the transliteration of Unicode Tamil characters using a phonetics-based forward list processing method, which shows promising results.