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Disadvantages Of Simple Marathi Sentences To English As The Official Language

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Abstract: With globalization English has become the official language of the world. With about 71 million Marathi speaking people and varied works in Marathi literature and novels calls for translation. A system is proposed that translates simple Marathi sentences to English using Rule based approach. The system makes use of an online POS (parts-of-speech) tagger maintained by TDIL. Using rule based approach the system is feasible up to certain extent.

Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Rule-based Machine Translation, Marathi, English, Grammar

1. Introduction

About 71 million of the earth’s 7 billion people speak Marathi as their native tongue. [3] Marathi is one of the top 22 official languages of India. Research and documents …show more content…

The Word to Word Translator converts the Source Language words into Target Language using the Bilingual Lexicon. Re-arrangement Algorithm then rearranges these Target Language words into the correct Target Language sentence structure. The Target Language Generator takes this output and displays the sentence into the Target Language.

5. Scope of Use
5.1. Advantages
India is a country with a large population well versed with vernacular languages but not fluent in English. A Marathi to English translation system will be helpful to the Marathi speaking population who need to converse in English. Lot of documents, scripts and scriptures in Marathi also need to be translated to English and this process is manual. Marathi to English translation system will help to automate this process and help reduce manual work related to translation.

5.2. Limitations
Considering the number of rules [2] to be included in the system, it is not possible to achieve perfect translations for each and every sentence. There might be some disambiguation present in some sentence translations. It is also language specific and cannot be used for translation of any other language pair. It is also limited to sentences in the domain of the project and cannot be used for generalized

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