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Abstract : Machine transliteration is an automatic method that converts words/characters in one alphabetical system to corresponding phonetically equivalent words/characters in another alphabetical system. Machine Transliteration has been used extensively to assist machine translation, data mining, information retrieval and more recently in popular web portals, SMS and chat systems. In this paper, we propose a new method where transliteration problem is modeled as a sequence labeling problem and proceed to solve this by using Support Vector Machines (SVM). We have applied this technique for transliterating English to Tamil and achieved exact Tamil transliterations for 80% of English names. We get an accuracy of 88% when we choose from the first five ranked transliterations.