Machine Transliteration of Handwritten MODI Script to Devanagari using Deep Neural Networks

Title

Machine Transliteration of Handwritten MODI Script to Devanagari using Deep Neural Networks

Creator

Joseph S.; George J.

Description

The transliteration process involves transcribing words from the source language into the target language that uses a different script. Language and scriptural hurdles can be overcome via transliteration systems. There is a demand for automated transliteration systems due to the existence of several languages and the growing number of multilingual speakers. This study focuses on the Machine Transliteration of handwritten MODI script to Devanagari. MODI script was the official script for Marathi till 1950. Although Devanagari has, since then, taken over as the Marathi languages official script, the MODI script has historical significance as large volumes of its manuscripts are preserved in libraries across different parts of India. However, MODI into Devanagari transliteration is a difficult task because MODI script documents are complex in nature and there is no standard dataset available for the experiment. Machine Transliteration can be approached either as a Natural Language Processing task or as a pattern recognition task. In this research work, the transliteration task is carried out using the pattern recognition technique. The transliteration of MODI script to Devanagari is implemented using Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) based Calamari OCR, which is open-source software. An accuracy of 88.14% is achieved in character level matching of each word in the MODI to Devanagari transliteration process. When considering the entire word matching, the accuracy achieved is 61%. Machine Transliteration of MODI script documents results in the retrieval of large repositories of knowledge from ancient MODI manuscripts. (2024), (Research Institute of Intelligent Computer Systems). All rights reserved.

Source

International Journal of Computing, Vol-23, No. 2, pp. 219-225.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

Research Institute of Intelligent Computer Systems

Subject

Calamari OCR; CRNN; Deep Neural Networks; Machine Transliteration; MODI script

Coverage

Joseph S., Carmel College of Arts Science and Commerce for Women, Goa, India; George J., Christ University, Delhi NCR Campus, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 17276209

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.23.2.3540

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