Finite-state Transducers (FST) can be very efficient to implement inter-dialectal transliteration. We illustrate this on the Hindi and Urdu language pair. FSTs can also be used for translation between surface-close languages. We introduce UIT (universal intermediate transcription) for the same pair on the basis of their common phonetic repository in such a way that it can be extended to other languages like Arabic, Chinese, English, French, etc. We describe a transliteration model based on FST and UIT, and evaluate it on Hindi and Urdu corpora.
REF uses hand designed rules encoded using finite state transducers to transliterate between Hindi and Urdu.
Hindi Urdu Machine Transliteration using Finite-State Transducers
International Conference On Computational Linguistics
Computer Science