The following features are then generated using this character-aligned data (here e i and h i form the i-th pair of aligned characters in the source word and target word respectively): • h i and source character bigrams ( {e i−1 , e i } or {e i , e i+1 }) • h i and source character trigrams ( {e i−2 , e i−1 , e i } or {e i−1 , e i , e i+1 } or {e i , e i+1 , e i+2 }) • h i , h i−1 and source character trigrams In this section, we outline our methodology for composing transitive transliteration systems between X and Y , using a bridge language Z, by chaining individual direct transliteration systems.
none of the above approaches address the problem of developing transliteration functionality between a pair of languages when no direct data exists between them but sufficient data is available between each of these languages and an intermediate language.