Rule-based phonetic matching approach for Hindi and Marathi

Phonetic matching plays an important role in multilingual information retrieval, where data is manipulated in multiple languages and user need information in their native language which may be different from the language where data has been maintained. In such an environment, we need a system which matches the strings phonetically in any case. Once strings match, we can retrieve the information irrespective of languages. In this paper, we proposed an approach which matches the strings either in Hindi or Marathi or in cross-language in order to retrieve information. We compared our proposed method with soundex and Q-gram methods. We found better results as compared to these approaches.