polyglot_transliteration
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Aamirothman
Last edited Jun 9, 2016
Created on Jun 9, 2016
The example demonstrates how the Polyglot natural language processing library detects and transliterates Malay text into English. It feeds a Malay-language news excerpt into the `Text` API, first calling `detect_language()` to confirm the language as Malay (`ms`), then applying `transliterate(target_language='en')` to convert each word into Latin characters. The output shows a word list where Malay terms like "parlimen," "pengarah," and "pilihan" are rendered phonetically in English, preserving their original pronunciation. The code relies on Polyglot's built-in language detection and transliteration functions, with the source text embedded directly in the notebook.
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