Transliteration Systems across Indian Languages Using Parallel Corpora

Hindi is the lingua-franca of India. Although all non-native speakers can communicate 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 transliterate Hindi into at-least 7 other Indian languages. The transliteration systems are developed as a reading aid for non-Hindi readers. The systems are trained on the transliteration pairs extracted automatically from a parallel corpora. All the transliteration systems perform satisfactorily for a non-Hindi reader to understand a Hindi text.