Challenges in Rule Based Machine Translation from Marathi to English

摘要

Machine translation is being carried out by the researchers from quite a long time. However, itis still a dream to materialize flawless Machine Translator and the small numbers ofresearchers has focussed at translating Marathi Text to English. Perfect Machine TranslationSystems have not yet been fully built because the fact that languages differ syntactically as wellas morphologically. Majority of the researchers have opted for Statistical Machine translationwhereas 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 andmany challenges encountered while attempting to build machine translation system formMarathi to English using rule based approach. As there are exceptions to the rules and limit tothe feasibility of maintaining knowledgebase, the practical machine translation from Marathi toEnglish is a complex task.