Disambiguation of pre/post positions in English - Malayalam Text Translation
V. Jayan, R Sunil, V K Bhadran · 2012
This paper presents the disambiguation of preposition in English to the corresponding post positions in Malayalam while translating text from English to Malayalam. Preposition in English will be replaced with post position in Indian Languages during translation. The polysemous nature of prepositions in English increases the difficulty in determining its exact meaning/function. This makes the task of mapping a preposition in English to an Indian language difficult, particularly for machine translation. Research or works on one to one mapping of English prepositions to Malayalam postpositions are not done for Malayalam. In this paper we illustrate the patterns of preposition mapping from English to Malayalam and present context disambiguation rules for determining the right mapping of different prepositions in English to postposition in Malayalam.