Handling Challenges in Rule Based Machine Translation from Marathi to English

Abstract

Machine translation is being carried out by the researchers from quite a long time. However, it is still a dream to materialize flawless Machine Translator and the small numbers of researchers has focussed at translating Marathi Text to English. Perfect Machine Translation Systems have not yet been fully built owing to the fact that languages differ syntactically as well as morphologically. Majority of the researchers have opted for Statistical Machine translation whereas in this paper we have addressed the challenges of Rule based Machine Translation. The paper describes the major divergences observed in language Marathi and English and many challenges encountered while attempting to build machine translation system form Marathi to English using rule based approach and rules to handle these challenges. As there are exceptions to the rules and limit to the feasibility of maintaining knowledgebase, the practical machine translation from Marathi to English is a complex task.

Inflection rules for Marathi to English in rule based machine translation

“…In Marathi there are seven cases, each having its own functional meaning and suffixes. There are different prepositions are used according to suffix attached [18] as given in Table 3.…”