1 Transliteration is the process of transducing names from one writing system to another (e.g., ओबामा in Devanagari to Obama in Latin script) while preserving their pronunciation (Knight and Graehl, 1998;Karimi et al., 2011).
back-transliteration from foreign languages to English has applications in multilingual knowledge acquisition tasks including named entity recognition (Darwish, 2013) and information retrieval (Virga and Khudanpur, 2003).