Soudi / Farghaly / Neumann Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-7362-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 165 Seiten

Reihe: Natural Language Processing

This book is the first volume that focuses on the specific challenges of machine translation with Arabic either as source or target language. It nicely fills a gap in the literature by covering approaches that belong to the three major paradigms of machine translation: Example-based, statistical and knowledge-based. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of the methods for incorporating linguistic knowledge into empirical MT. The book brings together original and extended contributions from a group of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. It is a welcome and much-needed repository of important aspects in Arabic Machine Translation such as morphological analysis and syntactic reordering, both central to reducing the distance between Arabic and other languages. Most of the proposed techniques are also applicable to machine translation of Semitic languages other than Arabic, as well as translation of other languages with a complex morphology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soudi, Abdelhadi

Farghaly, Ali

Neumann, Günter

Zbib, Rabih

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Challenges for Arabic machine translation
Rabih Zbib and Abdelhadi Soudi

Linguistic resources for Arabic machine translation: The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog
Ann Bies, Denise DiPersio and Mohamed Maamouri

Using morphology to improve Example-Based Machine Translation: The case of Arabic-to-English translation
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza and Aaron B. Phillips

Using semantic equivalents for Arabic-to-English: Example-based translation
Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz

Arabic preprocessing for Statistical Machine Translation: Schemes, techniques and combinations
Nizar Habash and Fatiha Sadat

Preprocessing for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation
Rabih Zbib and Ibrahim Badr

Lexical syntax for Arabic SMT
Hany Hassan

Automatic rule induction in Arabic to English machine translation framework
Khaled Shaalan and Ahmad Hany Hossny

Index