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Machine Translation (MT) refers to the use of a machine for performing translation task which converts text or speech in one Natural Language (Source Language (SL)) into another Natural Language (Target Language (TL)). The translation from Arabic to English is difficult task due to the Arabic languages are highly inflectional, rich morphology and relatively free word order. Word ordering plays an important part in the translation process. The paper proposes a transfer-based approach in Arabic to English MT to handle the word ordering problem. Preliminary tested indicate that our system, AE-TBMT is competitive when compared against other approaches from the literature.
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Hatem, A., Omar, N. (2010). Syntactic Reordering for Arabic- English Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In: Zhang, Y., Cuzzocrea, A., Ma, J., Chung, Ki., Arslan, T., Song, X. (eds) Database Theory and Application, Bio-Science and Bio-Technology. BSBT DTA 2010 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17622-7_20
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