Machine Transliteration has been studied extensively in the context of Machine Translation and Cross-Language Information Retrieval (Knight and Graehl, 1998), (Virga and Khudanpur, 2003), (Kuo et al., 2006), (Sherif and Kondrak, 2007), (Ravi and Knight, 2009), (Li et al., 2009), (Khapra and Bhattacharyya, 2009).
machine Transliteration followed by string similarity search gives less-thansatisfactory solution for the cross-language name search problem as we will see later in Section 4.