GRAPHON tamil to english transliteration for tamil biomedicine

Abstract

Cross-Language Information Retrieval is a fast-growing field that attracts many researches. In a field with humongous application, basic understanding and accessibility of words is a crucial task. Transliteration is one such vital task that paves way for a wide range of improvements. In our work, we focus on deploying transliteration to retrieve essential information from concealed English words in a spool of unstructured Tamil text. These English words written in Tamil are identified, and their correct form is retrieved by performing statistical search in a collection of built-in database. This GRAPHON (Grapheme + Phoneme)-based Tamil to English transliteration gave an accuracy of 68% being the first of its kind.