Title :
Web-based English-Sinhala translator in action
Author :
Hettige, Budditha ; Karunananda, Asoka S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Stat. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda
Abstract :
Machine translation has been a potential solution for addressing the language barrier. In line with this, we have developed English to Sinhala machine translation system that can be accessed through the Internet. The translation system runs on a Web sever and can be accessed by an ordinary Web client. The core of the translation system contains seven modules, namely, English Morphological analyzer, English parser, Translator, Sinhala Morphological generator, Sinhala parser, Transliteration module and three Lexicon Databases. This core system has already been tested and used on standalone machines. The current project has extended the core system with the use of Prolog Server Pages to provide online access thereby opening the service to a wider audience.
Keywords :
Internet; client-server systems; grammars; language translation; natural language processing; English Morphological analyzer; English parser; Internet; Lexicon Databases; Prolog Server Pages; Sinhala Morphological generator; Sinhala parser; Transliteration module; Web client; Web sever; Web-based English-Sinhala translator; language barrier; machine translation; Computer science; Databases; Dictionaries; Humans; Information analysis; Internet; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Statistics; System testing; machine translation; morphological analysis; natural language processing; sinhala language;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Automation for Sustainability, 2008. ICIAFS 2008. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Colombo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2899-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2900-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICIAFS.2008.4783963