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Volume 14:5 May 2014
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Translation Divergences in Hindi-Nepali Machine Translation

Krishna Maya Manger, M.A. (Nepali), M.A. (Linguistics)

Abstract

This paper examines the translation divergence in Hindi-Nepali Machine Translation which occurs due to the divergent patterns of the two languages in the grammatical level. The primary task of this paper is to identify the different types of translation divergences in the context of the Hindi and Nepali MT with a view to classify them according to the well-defined theoretical framework as proposed in the existing literature. In this paper, the different areas of translation divergences both from Hindi to Nepali and Nepali to Hindi machine translation perspectives have been examined. Dorr’s classification of translation divergence has been taken as the basis in order to examine the topic of divergence between the Hindi and Nepali language pair. However, the divergences like Promotional and Demotional Divergence have not been examined in this paper as the case of such divergence is very rare or unavailable in this language pair.

1. Background

Generally speaking, machine translation is a translation of text from one language to another with the help of computers. It aims at achieving the translation quality as human translators do but it is impossible or hard to achieve this goal due to the divergent characteristics of each and every language. Every language has its own patterns in its grammatical and extra grammatical levels. Though, Hindi and Nepali belong to the same language family, Indo-Aryan, they have their own distinct linguistic patterns which result in rich divergence in machine translation. This paper aims at identifying such divergences as this is necessary in order to get a good quality translation for the Hindi sentences in Nepali and vice-versa.

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Krishna Maya Manger
Research Scholar
Department of Nepal
i University of North Bengal
Rajaram Mohanpur
Siliguiri
Dist- Darjeeling 734013
West Bengal
India
krishnamanger@gmail.com
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