A simple approach for building transliteration editors for Indian languages  

作　　者：PRAHALLAD Lavanya PRAHALLAD Kishore GANAPATHIRAJU Madhavi 

机构地区：[1]Institute for Software International, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA,Institute for Software International, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA,Institute for Software International, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA

出　　处：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》2005年第11期1354-1361,共8页浙江大学学报（英文版）A辑（应用物理与工程）

摘　　要：Transliteration editors are essential for keying-in Indian language scripts into the computer using QWERTY keyboard. Applications of transliteration editors in the context of Universal Digital Library (UDL) include entry of meta-data and diction- aries for Indian languages. In this paper we propose a simple approach for building transliteration editors for Indian languages using Unicode and by taking advantage of its rendering engine. We demonstrate the usefulness of the Unicode based approach to build transliteration editors for Indian languages, and report its advantages needing little maintenance and few entries in the mapping table, and ease of adding new features such as adding letters, to the transliteration scheme. We demonstrate the trans- literation editor for 9 Indian languages and also explain how this approach can be adapted for Arabic scripts.Transliteration editors are essential for keying-in Indian language scripts into the computer using QWERTY keyboard Applications of transliteration editors in the context of Universal Digital Library （UDL） include entry of meta-data and dictionaries for Indian languages. In this paper we propose a simple approach for building transliteration editors for Indian languages using Unicode and by taking advantage of its rendering engine. We demonstrate the usefulness of the Unicode based approach to build transliteration editors for Indian languages, and report its advantages needing little maintenance and few entries in the mapping table, and ease of adding new features such as adding letters, to the transliteration scheme. We demonstrate the transliteration editor for 9 Indian languages and also explain how this approach can be adapted for Arabic scripts.

关 键 词：Transliteration editor Indian languages Universal Digital Library （UDL） 

分 类 号：TP391.1[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术]