Applying Finite State Morphology to Conversion Between Roman and Perso-Arabic Writing Systems

Abstract

This paper presents a method for converting back and forth between the Perso-Arabic and a romanized writing system for Persian. Given a word in one writing system, we use finite state transducers to generate morphological analysis for the word that is subsequently used to regenerate the orthography of the word in the other writing system. The system has been implemented in XFST and LEXC.