Bidirectional Bengali Script and Meetei Mayek Transliteration of Web Based Manipuri News Corpus

The transliteration has attracted interest of several sections of researchers. Several techniques of transliteration have been developed and used – both statistical based approaches and rule based approaches. In the present method, a simple but effective rule based technique is developed for the transliteration between Bengali script and Meetei Mayek script of written Manipuri text. Typically, transliteration is carried out between two different languages –one as a source and the other as a target. But, for the languages which use more than one script, it becomes essential to introduce transliteration between the scripts. This is the reason why the present task is carried out between Bengali script and Meetei Mayek for Manipuri language. The proposed rule based approach points out the importance of deeper linguistic rule integration in the process by making use of the monosyllabic characteristics of Manipuri language. The Bengali script to Meetei Mayek transliteration system based on the proposed model gives higher precision and recall compared to the statistical model. But, in contrast to that, the statistical based approach gives higher precision and recall compared to the rule based approach for the reverse transliteration.