Translating technical terms into Arabic: Microsoft Terminology Collection (English-Arabic) as an example

Translating Names and Technical Terms in Arabic Text

It is challenging to translate names and technical terms from English into Arabic. Translation is usually done phonetically: different alphabets and sound inventories force various compromises. For example, Peter Streams may come out as hr..~ ~ bytr szrymz. This process is called transliteration. We address here the reverse problem: given a foreign name or loanword in Arabic text, we want to re...

Translating Dialectal Arabic to English

We present a dialectal Egyptian Arabic to English statistical machine translation system that leverages dialectal to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) adaptation. In contrast to previous work, we first narrow down the gap between Egyptian and MSA by applying an automatic characterlevel transformational model that changes Egyptian to EG′, which looks similar to MSA. The transformations include morpho...

Third-year Students’ Difficulties in Translating Computing Terms from English into Arabic

An Arabic to English Example-based Translation System

An implementation of a non-structural ExampleBased Machine Translation system that translates short sentences from Arabic to English, using a large parallel corpus aligned at the paragraph level, is described. Each new input sentence is matched to example patterns by using various levels of morphological data. We encountered several problems in the matching and the transfer steps, some of which...

Translating English Discourse Connectives into Arabic: a Corpus-based Analysis and an Evaluation Metric

Discourse connectives can often signal multiple discourse relations, depending on their context. The automatic identification of the Arabic translations of seven English discourse connectives shows how these connectives are differently translated depending on their actual senses. Automatic labelling of English source connectives can help a machine translation system to translate them more corre...