In coining the term ‘Coolitude’ to re-imagine and re-vision indenture experience, Khal Torabully has created a new identity language, based on strength resiliency garnered through rich intercultural exchanges among indentured workers. The central image in Khal’s seminal work, Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude , is ship’s cargo hold from where its occupants – no matter their country origin, religio...

Translating new entity names is important for improving performance in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Machine Translation (MT) and Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). Usually, transliteration is used to obtain phonetic equivalents in a target language for a given source language word. However, transliteration across different writing systems often results in dif...