Tamil to Malayalam Transliteration

Transliteration forms an essential part of transcription which converts text from one writing system to another. The need for translating data has become larger than before as the world is getting together through social media. Machine transliteration has emerged as a part of information retrieval and machine translation projects to translate named entities, that are not registered in the dictionary, based on phonemes and graphemes. This paper proposes a machine learning technique that performs transliteration from Tamil to Malayalam, two languages that belong to Dravidian family. Transliteration can be used to supplement machine translation process by handling the issues that can happen due to the presence of named entities.