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Volume 14:10 October 2014
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Divergence Issues in English-Punjabi Machine Translation

Deepti Bhalla, M.Tech.
Nisheeth Joshi, Ph.D.
Iti Mathur, M.Sc.

Abstract

Machine Translation is emerging research area in the field of computer science. Language divergence problem is the key concern in machine translation. Divergence issues need to be identified carefully for their appropriate categorization. This paper discusses various types of translation divergence between a pair of natural languages i.e. English and Punjabi. The field of linguistic divergence is miscellaneous and need to be explored more for identifying its further classification. In this paper, we take DORR’s classification (1993-1994) to identify different types of translation divergence in our language pair.

Keywords:Translation Divergence, Syntactic divergence, Lexical Divergence, English-Punjabi MT.

Introduction

The issue of translation divergence is a very considerable topic. Translation divergence can be defined as a problem which occurs during translation between two languages of different origin. It mainly occurs when the output translation of one language into another language is very much different from the novel translation. It is very difficult to collect the precise translation of an input sentence without analyzing the nature of translation divergence. The syntax is the one which can be used to realize the semantics of the sentence. If a sentence in one language has its corresponding translations in another language and if both these translations differ in their roles then divergence is likely to occur.

Divergence issues mainly arise due to the incongruous nature of source and target language. This paper focuses on the congruity and discrepancies that we observe while translating our input text from English to Punjabi language. In this paper we are examining the English-Punjabi language pair with emphasis on identifying the language specific divergences. Our primary goal is to identify different types of translation divergence between English and Punjabi language.

Some commonly identified divergences are discussed in the paper.

The paper is organized as follows: Section 1 gives introduction portion. Section 2 describes the related work. Section 3 describes the script of our language pair. Section 4 describes the Dorr’s classification of translation divergence. Section 5 describes the syntactic divergence. Section 6 describes the lexical-semantic divergence. In Section 7 we conclude the paper.

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Deepti Bhalla, M.Tech.
deeptibhalla0600@gmail.com
Nisheeth Joshi, Ph.D.
nisheeth.joshi@rediffmail.com
Iti Mathur, M.Sc.
mathur_iti@rediffmail.com
Department of Computer Science
Apaji Institute
Banasthali University
P.O. Banasthali Vidyapith - 304022
Rajasthan
India
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