Amazigh Representation in the UNL Framework: Resource Implementation

AbstractThis paper discusses the first steps undertaken to create necessary linguistic resources to incorporate Amazigh language within the Universal Networking Language (UNL) framework for machine translation purpose. This universal interlanguage allows to any source text to be translated into different other related languages with UNL by converting the meaning of the source text into semantic graph. This encoding is considered as a pivot interlanguage used in translation systems. Thus in this work, we focus on presenting morphological, syntactical and lexical mapping stages needed for building an “Amazigh dictionary” according to the UNL framework and the “UNL-Amazigh Dictionary” that are both taking part in enconversion and deconversion processes

The Impact of E-Learning in Students' Ability in Translation from English into Arabic at Irbid National University in Jordan

The current study  aims at examining the impact of Internet and E-Learning methods in improving students' ability  in translation from English into Arabic. The sample was chosen from the English Department at  Irbid National University (INU) in Jordan. The random sample consisted of 40 translation students. It was divided into two similar Groups, Experimental and Control. T-test 'for independent samples' was used to compare between the two Groups at pre and posttests. The results revealed the higher level in translation for the benefit of Experimental Group. It revealed also statistical differences between pre and post tests for the Experimental Group. No differences were found according to the Control Group.  Recommendations and suitable suggestions were made for future research  and others who are concerned in such research. Key words: translation, Irbid National University (INU), students' ability, e-Learning, Internet's methods

Quality Evaluation of C-E Translation of Legal Texts by Mainstream Machine Translation Systems—An Example of DeepL and Metasota

Despite significant progress made in machine translation technology and the ongoing efforts in practical and commercial application of neural machine translation systems, their performance in vertical fields remains unsatisfactory. To avoid misunderstandings and excessive expectations of a specific machine translation system, this research selected legal texts as its real data research object. The text translation tasks were accomplished using two popular neural machine translation systems, DeepL and Metasota, both domestically and internationally, and evaluated using internationally recognized BLEU algorithm to reflect their Chinese-to-English translation performance in legal fields. Based on the determined BLEU score, the study adopted an artificial analysis method to analyze the grammatical aspects of the machine translation output, including the accuracy of terminology usage, word order, subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, tense, and voice to enable readers to have a rational understanding of the gap between machine translation and human translation in legal text translation, and objectively assess the application and future development prospects of machine translation in legal text fields. The experimental results indicate that machine translation systems still face challenges in achieving high-quality legal text translations and meeting practical needs, and that further post-translation editing research is needed to improve the accuracy of legal text translation

Getting Past the Language Gap: Innovations in Machine Translation

In this chapter, we will be reviewing state of the art machine translation systems, and will discuss innovative methods for machine translation, highlighting the most promising techniques and applications. Machine translation (MT) has benefited from a revitalization in the last 10 years or so, after a period of relatively slow activity. In 2005 the field received a jumpstart when a powerful complete experimental package for building MT systems from scratch became freely available as a result of the unified efforts of the MOSES international consortium. Around the same time, hierarchical methods had been introduced by Chinese researchers, which allowed the introduction and use of syntactic information in translation modeling. Furthermore, the advances in the related field of computational linguistics, making off-the-shelf taggers and parsers readily available, helped give MT an additional boost. Yet there is still more progress to be made. For example, MT will be enhanced greatly when both syntax and semantics are on board: this still presents a major challenge though many advanced research groups are currently pursuing ways to meet this challenge head-on. The next generation of MT will consist of a collection of hybrid systems. It also augurs well for the mobile environment, as we look forward to more advanced and improved technologies that enable the working of Speech-To-Speech machine translation on hand-held devices, i.e. speech recognition and speech synthesis. We review all of these developments and point out in the final section some of the most promising research avenues for the future of MT

Getting Past the Language Gap: Innovations in Machine Translation

In this chapter, we will be reviewing state of the art machine translation systems, and will discuss innovative methods for machine translation, highlighting the most promising techniques and applications. Machine translation (MT) has benefited from a revitalization in the last 10 years or so, after a period of relatively slow activity. In 2005 the field received a jumpstart when a powerful complete experimental package for building MT systems from scratch became freely available as a result of the unified efforts of the MOSES international consortium. Around the same time, hierarchical methods had been introduced by Chinese researchers, which allowed the introduction and use of syntactic information in translation modeling. Furthermore, the advances in the related field of computational linguistics, making off-the-shelf taggers and parsers readily available, helped give MT an additional boost. Yet there is still more progress to be made. For example, MT will be enhanced greatly when both syntax and semantics are on board: this still presents a major challenge though many advanced research groups are currently pursuing ways to meet this challenge head-on. The next generation of MT will consist of a collection of hybrid systems. It also augurs well for the mobile environment, as we look forward to more advanced and improved technologies that enable the working of Speech-To-Speech machine translation on hand-held devices, i.e. speech recognition and speech synthesis. We review all of these developments and point out in the final section some of the most promising research avenues for the future of MT