... Raghavendra Udupa K Saravanan A Kumaran Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi* Microsoft Research India Bangalore 560080 INDIA [raghavu,v-sarak,kumarana,jags}@microsoft.com Abstract In this paper, we address ... Indo-Aryan family, Russian from the Slavic fam-ily, Kannada and Tamil from the Dravidian fami-ly). Note that none of the five languages use a common script and hence identification of cog-nates, ... Transliteration systems (AbdulJaleel and Larkey, 2003; Al-Onaizan and Knight, 2002; Virga and Khudanpur, 2003) usually produce incorrect transliterations and translation lexcions such as hand-crafted...