Machine Translation Software: A Case Study on Select Software from English to Tamil

Name of Author : Miss S. Gayathree

Abstract: This study intends to have a look on Machine Translation software which facilitate the translators. In order to ease the study five announcement statements made in railway station are taken and they are checked in the select translation software. This study involves English and Tamil languages. The strengths and deficiencies of these software in translating from English to Tamil are pointed out. Identifying those deficiencies is helpful in improving the software with better performances. This will be a limelight for the translators to facilitate the performance of translation as well as for the scholars involved in building up the machine translation software to enhance their models with the standard system. Thus this study gets significance in real translation activity and improving machine translation software especially with regard to lexical choice and formation of phrase.

Keywords : Software, Accuracy, Lexical Choice and Translation Aid

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