A Model for English to Urdu and Hindi Machine
Translation System using Translation Rules
and Artificial Neural Network
Shahnawaz Khan1
and Imran Usman2
1Department of Information
Technology, University College of Bahrain, Bahrain
2College of Computing and Informatics, Saudi Electronic University,
Saudi Arabia
Abstract: This paper illustrates
the architecture and working of a proposed multilingual machine translation
system which is able to translate from English to Urdu and Hindi. The system applies
translation rules based approach with artificial neural network.The efficient
pattern matching and the ability of learning by examples makes neural networks
suitable for implementation of a translation rule based machine translation
system.This paper also describes the importance of machine translation systems
and status of the languages in a multilingual country like India.Machine
translation evaluation score for translation output obtained from the system
has been calculated using various methods such as n-gram bleu score, F-measure,
Meteor and precision, recall. The evaluation scores achieved by the system for
around 500 Hinditest sentences are as: n-gram bleu score 0.5903; Metric for
Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering (METEOR) score achieved is 0.7956
and F-score of 0.7916 and for Urdu n-gram bleu score achieved by thesystem is
0.6054; METEOR score achieved is 0.8083 and F-score of 0.8250.
Keywords: Machine translation, artificial
neural network, english, hindi, urdu.