Punjabi Text Generation using Interlingua approach in Machine Translation

authentic record of my own work carried out under the supervision of Dr. R. K. Sharma. The matter presented in this thesis has not been submitted by me for the award of any other degree of this or any other University. SACHIN KALRA This is to certify that the above statement made by the candidate is correct and true to best of my knowledge. A journey is easier when traveled together. Interdependence is certainly more valuable than independence. This thesis is the result of work carried out during the final year of my course whereby I have been accompanied and supported by many people. It is a pleasant aspect that I have now the opportunity to express my gratitude for all of them. motivation and inspiration that triggered me for the thesis work. I owe him lots of gratitude for having me shown this way of research. from beginning of this course. I am also thankful to all the faculty and staff members of the Computer Sc. & Engg. Department for providing me all the facilities required for the completion of this work. No thesis could be written without being influenced by the thoughts of others. I would like to thank my friends Harsimran Singh and Surinder Pal Singh who were always there at the hour of the need and provided with all the help and support, which I needed. I am grateful to my brother Deepak Kalra who helped me with his kind suggestions. At last but not the least I would like to thank " The Creator of Destinies " for not letting me down at the time of crises and showing me the silver lining in the dark clouds. SACHIN KALRA (8023114) 4 The scientific art of Machine Translation (MT) is the attempt to automate all, or part of the process of translating from one human language to another. Technically translation is nothing more than word substitution (determined by the dictionary) and reordering (determined by reordering rules). However translating a text requires not only a good knowledge of the vocabulary of both source and target language, but also of their grammar i.e. the system of rules which specifies whether a sentence is well-formed in a particular language or not. Additionally, it requires some element of real world knowledge — knowledge of the nature of things out in the world and how they work together — and technical …