ABSTRACT

Machine transliteration plays an important role in natural language applications such as information retrieval and machine translation, especially for handling proper nouns and technical terms. Transliteration is a crucial factor in CLIR and MT. It is important for Machine Translation, especially when the languages do not use the same scripts. This paper addresses the issue of statistical machine transliteration from English to Punjabi. Statistical Approach to transliteration is used for transliteration from English to Punjabi using MOSES, a statistical machine translation tool. After applying transliteration rules average %age accuracy and BLEU score of this transliteration system comes out to be 63.31% and 0.4502 respectively.