Latin-to-Balinese Script Transliteration Method on Mobile Application: A Comparison

Abstract

Balinese script writing, as one of Balinese cultural richness, is going to extinct because of its decreasing use. This research is a way to preserve it through collaboration between Computer Science and Language discipline, that focused on accuracy comparison of Latin-to-Balinese script transliteration method on mobile application as a ubiquitous learning media. From few research in this area, there are only two existing methods to be compared, i.e. each on Android mobile application that were called Belajar Aksara Bali (BAB), and Transliterasi Aksara Bali (TAB). The comparison was based on The Balinese Alphabet writing rules and examples document by Sudewa. Through the experiment, TAB has outperformed BAB since TAB has passed over 68% (103 of 151) cases, while BAB has passed over only 39% (59 of 151) cases. This research contributes on a comprehensive accuracy comparison analysis of Latin-to-Balinese script transliteration method, specifically on mobile application, since there is no such study. This research also contributes on those methods improvement possibility. In the future, this research can be used as a reference for improvement of any Latin-to-Balinese script transliteration method by taking care on thirteen kind of special words that were found during this comparison study.

Learning media for the transliteration of Latin letters into Bima script based on android applications

“…Literacy learning media are not only limited to games and dictionaries, but robots have also been developed to write characters [9] . The development of research to get the aksara transliteration application accusation analyzes the accuracy necessary to find the best method [10] . Apart from learning Balinese script text, it is also developed in the image processing process.…”

A Method to Accommodate Backward Compatibility on the Learning Application-based Transliteration to the Balinese Script

“…As one of the diversity of local language knowledge in Indonesia, the endangered Balinese Script transliteration knowledge [1]- [3] raises concerns for the preservation. The Bali Government has already conducted the preservation efforts through the Bali Governor Regulation [4], [5] and strengthen them with the Bali Governor Circular Letter [6].…”

“…It proposed a method to accommodate backward compatibility on the learning application-based transliteration to the Balinese Script. This work has never been conducted yet and applied to the previous works that were still based on the older transliteration rules (for short, the older rules) from The Balinese Alphabet document 1 . It exposes the backward compatibility method to accommodate the standard transliteration rules (for short, the standard rules) from the Balinese Language, Script, and Literature Advisory Agency [7].…”

“…This study was conducted on the developed web-based transliteration learning application, BaliScript, for further ubiquitous Balinese Language learning since the proposed method reusable for the mobile application [8], [9]. It also advances the previous work by (1) accommodating special words [1], [10] through a certain table structure in the database rather than hard-coding them in the application code;…”

“…This paper is organized into several sections, i.e. Section I (Introduction) states the problem background related to the transliteration to the Balinese Script; Section II (Related Works) describes the related works in the area of the transliteration to the Balinese Script and its backward compatibility aspect; Section III (Research Method) exposes the supporting algorithm, the implementation, and the testing 1 The Balinese Alphabet,…”