Issues of coherence analysis on English translations of Quran

Author

Tabrizi, A.A. ; Mahmud, Rohana

Author_Institution

Dept. of Artificial Intell., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This study shows issues of comparing English translations of Holy Quran and its Arabic text from discourse structure perspective. There are several different translations of Quran, which differ in structure and word domain. In these translations, the order of sentences, phrases, and words is different, which affects computational text analyzing results. It is a new idea to study translations of Quran from entity coherence and lexical cohesion point of view, as a method for evaluating the accuracy and equivalence of existing translations. The results of this study even can be used for machine translation in the future. This research is a preliminary stage of investigating the issues, constructing a platform and defining of some preliminary rules for comparing and evaluating discourse structure of translations.

Keywords

language translation; natural language processing; text analysis; Arabic text; English translation; Holy Quran; coherence analysis; discourse structure perspective; lexical cohesion point; machine translation; text analysis; Accuracy; Coherence; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Face; Semantics; Syntactics; Quran translation; coherence; lexical cohesion; pronoun resolution; translation evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), 2013 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sharjah

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2820-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSPA.2013.6487276

Filename

6487276