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GRAPHON Tamil to English Transliteration for Tamil Biomedicine

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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.

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This work is part of our research supported by Department of Science and Technology’s INSPIRE fellowship Programme, Ministry of Science and Technology, India.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, 600025, Tamil Nadu, India

    J. Betina Antony & G. S. Mahalakshmi

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Subhransu Sekhar Dash

  2. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Swagatam Das

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

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Antony, J.B., Mahalakshmi, G.S. (2018). GRAPHON Tamil to English Transliteration for Tamil Biomedicine. In: Dash, S., Das, S., Panigrahi, B. (eds) International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 632. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5520-1_41

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