Meta Platforms, Inc.
Transliteration using machine translation pipeline

Abstract:

Embodiments are disclosed for transliteration based on a machine translation model training pipeline. A method according to some embodiments includes steps of: training a probabilistic model for transliteration from a first script system to a second script system using a machine translation model training pipeline; segmenting, using the probabilistic model, an input string in the first script system into phonemes that correspond to characters in the second script system; converting the phonemes in the first script system into the characters in the second script system, the characters forming a word or a word prefix in the second script system; and outputting the word or the word prefix in the second script system.