Thanks Nikhil !
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:11 PM Nikhil VJ <nikhil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Pradeep, > > I had used an iTrans converter hosted on this fantastic site of indian > language converters: > *https://sites.google.com/site/technicalhindi/home/converters > <https://sites.google.com/site/technicalhindi/home/converters>* > > (search for itrans) > > And I learned the hilarious way what linguists mean by the term > "phonetically accurate / inaccurate script". The most amusing results were > the round-trip ones : Words that are originally English, have been written > in Marathi script, and then we transliterate them back to English. In your > case if you're doing people's names then that won't be too much of an issue. > > An example output: phargyusan (which is supposed to be: Fergusson) > > > So I ran the results of the iTrans converver through this javascript > page/program I built : a "Ctrl+H on steroids". I used it to do sequential > replacements on the frequently occurring word-parts (roots? clauses?) and > reign in the hilarious output. > > *https://answerquest.github.io/words-replacer.html > <https://answerquest.github.io/words-replacer.html>* > > Of course this was 3 yrs ago and long before I heard about things like > natural language processing or the possibility of using transliteration > tools programmatically. > > I saw many possible leads come up in search results on searching for > "transliteration API hindi english". So look it up. > > -Nikhil VJ > Pune, India > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
