INSTALL
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Transliteration from English to Bangla using annirvine-miniscale_translit-a01cda7

Requirments
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OS = 32 bit Linux Operating System.
Hardware requirments = Any 32 bit machine.

NOTE: For a 64 bit machine you will need to change theSRILM make file.

Installation Procedure
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1. You'll need to install a few software development tools before you install it:  
   sudo apt‐get install g++ make gawk gzip tcl8.4 tcl8.4‐dev csh tcsh ant swig

2. Download the Transliteration.tar.gz folder and Unzip it. 

3. Set JAVA_HOME,SRILM,JASHUA to environment variable by typing 
                     export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/Java
                     export SRILM=/path/to/srilm
                     export JOSHUA=/path/to/joshua-1.3
  to the end of the file bash.bashrc

   cd /etc
   su
   Enter your root password
   gedit bash.bashrc

4. change the path of srilm make file
   cd srilm
   make
   make World

5. In the joshua folder ant
   cd joshua-1.3
   ant

6. To decode a test set, run:
./translit_strings.sh demo_data/bangla/bangla_test demo_data/bangla 

First arg: test file (Input name)
Second arg: pointer to same directory given in training step, above

7. Output in demo_data/bangla/bangla_test.answer

Questions:
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