Proposed Framework for Pali Words to Myanmar Text Translation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to assist Buddhists and the new Buddhist students who are unfamiliar with some of the Pali words often used in the study of Buddhism. Moreover this can also assist the students of philosophy or orientalist who has to know the terminology of their field, which for common parlance is mostly not less ‘unfamiliar’ than are the words of the Pali language found in the dictionary. As Myanmar is Buddhism country, needs to deeper understand Buddha-Dhamma. In this study both building of Pali- Myanmar dictionary and Pali-Myanamr words segmentation to translate the given Pali-Myanmar scriptures to Myanmar text are proposed. So proposed system has two sections, first is building of Pali- Myanmar dictionary and second is translation for Pali words to Myanmar text in which Pali-Myanmar words is first needed the segmentation to provide translation of Pali-Myanmar words to Myanmar text . So words segmentation method is used with the combination of rule-based syllable segmentation and dictionary-based matching method for translation of Pali words to Myanmar text.