ARABIC-ENGLISH TRANSLATOR OF SPECIFIC NOUN PHRASE  WITH TRANSFER-BASED APPROACH

NAMIQ SULTAN ABDULLAH

doi:10.26682/sjuod.2018.21.1.11

NAMIQ SULTAN ABDULLAH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region-Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26682/sjuod.2018.21.1.11

Keywords: machine translation, Arabic Language Processing, rule-based approach

Abstract

Machine translation between languages which have different morphology and syntactic features is generally a complex task. Rule-Based Machine Translation is machine translation based on linguistic information about source and target languages. This approach needs to design precise rules for both the source and the target languages in order to generate a correct translation. This paper presents a transfer-based approach for translating Arabic noun phrase to the English language. The idea is to start with noun phrases that are not including conjunctions, prepositions, and quantifier particles. The system was tested on 80 phrases taken from MSc thesis titles of management and economy domain. The system was evaluated by professional human evaluators. The accuracy of the result was 96.2%.

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