HiPHET: A Hybrid Approach to Translate Code Mixed Language (Hinglish) to Pure Languages (Hindi and English)

Abstract

Bilingual code mixed (hybrid) languages has become very popular in India as a result of the spread of Western technology in the form of the television, the Internet and social media. Due to this increase in usage of code-mixed languages in day-to-day communication, the need for maintaining the integrity of Indian languages has arisen. As a result of this need the tool named Hinglish to Pure Hindi and English Translator was developed. The tool translated in three ways, namely, Hinglish to Pure Hindi and Pure English, Pure Hindi to Pure English and vice versa. The tool has achieved accuracy of 91% in giving Hindi sentences as output and of 84% in giving English sentences as output, where the input sentences were in Hinglish. The tool has also been compared with another similar tool in the paper.

Survey on Hinglish to English Translation and Classification Techniques

“…However, one major challenge remains the scarcity of code-mixed Hinglish data [3]. To address this, future research could focus on generating larger parallel corpuses [6].…”

“…This method had several drawbacks, including "uss aadmi" becoming "US person" instead of "that person". To solve the spelling variations in the comments and to improve the resource for translation, the authors of article [6] adopt a technique that generates n-best-lists in the training dataset's original language. According to them, a little in-domain dataset could help the translation system perform even better.…”