Machine Translation of Idioms from English to Hindi
Monika Gaule, Gurpreet Singh Josan · 2012
This qualitative investigation is designed to shed light on the identification and translation of idiomatic expressions from English to Hindi is analyzed in this paper. It investigates the main problems and difficulties encountered during idioms translation and the extent to which idiomaticity is retained.This identification of idioms is utmost important resource for machine translation system and research in this field. A rule based approach for identification of idioms is proposed. The sentences containing idioms are translated with goggle translate system. We have manually created testing data to test the generated resource.The aim of a proper idiom translation is achieving equivalent sense, strategies, cultural aspects and effects. The output is evaluated manually for intelligibility and accuracy. The accuracy of system is 70%. Analysis of results shows that the problems of bad translation are due to errors of different categories like-irrelevant idioms, grammar agreement, part of speech etc.