Myanmar-English Bidirectional Machine Translation System by Using Transfer Based Approach

Abstract

This paper presents the development of bidirectional machine translation system of Myanmar- English. This Machine Translation system is based on Transfer Based Approach. It contains three stages: (1) source sentence analysis stages, (2) the structure of source sentence to the structure of target sentence transferstages and (3) target sentence generation stages.In the analysis stage, input source sentence is parsed with the help of existing parsers. To change from source sentence structure to target sentence structure, tree to tree transformation approach is applied by using Synchronous Context Free Grammar (SCFG) rules. Morphological synthesis is also considered to improve smooth translationin the generation stage because Myanmar language is amorphologically rich language.