Myanmar Phrases Translation Model with Morphological Analysis for Statistical Myanmar to English Translation System

Thet Thet Zin, Khin Mar Soe, Ni Lar Thein
2011 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation  
This paper presents Myanmar phrases translation model with morphological analysis. The system is based on statistical approach. In statistical machine translation, large amount of information is needed to guide the translation process. When small amount of training data is available, morphological analysis is needed especially for morphology rich language. Myanmar language is inflected language and there are very few creations and researches of corpora in Myanmar, comparing to other language
more » ... h as English, French, and Czech etc. Therefore, Myanmar phrases translation model is based on syntactic structure and morphology of Myanmar language. Bayes rule is also used to reformulate the translation probability of phrase pairs. Experiment results showed that proposed system can improve translation quality by applying morphological analysis on Myanmar language.
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