Volume 11, Number 1

A Robust Three-Stage Hybrid Framework for English to Bangla Transliteration

  Authors

Redwan Ahmed Rizvee, Asif Mahmood, Shakur Shams Mullick and Sajjadul Hakim, Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Abstract

Phonetic typing using the English alphabet has become widely popular nowadays for social media and chat services. As a result, a text containing various English and Bangla words and phrases has become increasingly common. Existing transliteration tools display poor performance for such texts. This paper proposes a robust Three-stage Hybrid Transliteration (THT) framework that can transliterate both English words and phonetic typed Bangla words satisfactorily. This is achieved by adopting a hybrid approach of dictionary-based and rule-based techniques. Experimental results confirm superiority of THT as it significantly outperforms the benchmark transliteration tool.

  Keywords

Transliteration framework, phonetic typing, English to Bangla, hybrid framework, THT.