Transliteration from English to Telugu Using Phrase-Based Machine Translation for General Domain English Words

Transliteration techniques are used to preserve the phonetic information associated with a word written in one language called the source language and write the word in another language called the target language with the pronunciation constrained of the target language. In this paper, a comparative study of English and Telugu language in terms of transliteration problem is presented, and a simple phrase-based machine translation (PBMT) system is trained using Moses and Giza++ for English to Telugu transliteration of general English words used in the English language. To evaluate the results, a modified edit distance-based method is used.