Assamese-English Bilingual Machine Translation
Abstract
Machine translation is the process of translating text from one language to another. In this paper, Statistical Machine Translation is done on Assamese and English language by taking their respective parallel corpus. A statistical phrase based translation toolkit Moses is used here. To develop the language model and to align the words we used two another tools IRSTLM, GIZA respectively. BLEU score is used to check our translation system performance, how good it is. A difference in BLEU scores is obtained while translating sentences from Assamese to English and vice-versa. Since Indian languages are morphologically very rich hence translation is relatively harder from English to Assamese resulting in a low BLEU score. A statistical transliteration system is also introduced with our translation system to deal basically with proper nouns, OOV (out of vocabulary) words which are not present in our corpus.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.2019,
title = {Assamese-English Bilingual Machine Translation},
author = {Kalyanee Kanchan Baruah and Pranjal Das and Abdul Hannan and Shikhar Kr. Sarma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2019},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
In the proceedings of International Conference of Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Computing (ICONACC)-2014, pp. 227-231