Translation divergence in English-Hindi MT
K. Sinha, R. Uma Mahesh, Anil Kumar Thakur · 2005
Divergence related to mapping patterns between two or more natural languages is a common phenomenon. The patterns of divergence between two languages need to be identified and strategies devised to handle them to obtain correct translation from one language to another. In the literature on MT, some attempts have been made to classify the types of translation divergence between a pair of natural languages. However, the issue of linguistic divergence is such a complex phenomenon that a lot more need to be done in this area to identify further classes of divergence, their implications and inter-relatedness as well as the approaches to handle them. In this paper, we take Dorr's (1994) classification of translation divergence as base and examine the translation patterns between Hindi and English to locate further details and implications of these divergences. We attempt to identify the potential topics that fall under divergence and cannot directly or indirectly be accounted for or accommodated within the existing classification. Our primary goal is to identify different patterns of translation divergence from Hindi to English and the vice versa and, on the basis of that, suggest an augmentation in the classification of translation divergence.