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A Hybrid Approach to English to Malayalam Machine Translation
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 81 - Number 8 |
| Year of Publication: 2013 |
| Authors: Nithya B, Shibily Joseph |
10.5120/14031-1816
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Nithya B, Shibily Joseph . A Hybrid Approach to English to Malayalam Machine Translation. International Journal of Computer Applications. 81, 8 ( November 2013), 11-15. DOI=10.5120/14031-1816
Abstract
Machine translation is the process of translating text from one natural language to other using computers. The process requires extreme intelligence and experience like a human being that a machine usually lacks. Availability of machine translators for translation from English to Dravidian language, Malayalam is on the low. A few corpus-based and non-corpus based approaches have been tried in performing English to Malayalam translation. In this work a hybrid approach to perform English to Malayalam translation is proposed. This hybrid approach extends the baseline statistical machine translator with a translation memory. A statistical machine translator performs translation by applying machine learning techniques on the corpus. The translation memory caches the recently performed translations in memory and eliminates the need for performing redundant translations. The system is implemented and evaluated using BLEU score and precision measure and the hybrid approach is found to improve the performance of the translator.
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