Bidirectional English to Wolaytta Machine Translation Using Hybrid Approach
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As a part of natural language processing (NLP), machine translation focuses on automated techniques to produce target language text from the source language text. In this study, we combined two approaches: the rule-based MT approach and the statistical MT approach. Sentence reordering, Language model, Translation models, and decoding comprise the system. POS tagging was used to reorder the sentence more comparably, the IRSTLM tool was used to create language models for English, and the Wolaytta, Giza++ tool was used for translation. To ensure mutual translation, two language models have been developed. Four phases of experiments are carried out on the collected data set. Phases of experimentation include preprocessing on the parallel corpus, language modeling, training the translation model, and tune-up the translation system. For both side translations, the BLEU score assessed the accuracy of the translation from Wolaytta to English was 46.31 % and from English to Wolaytta was 56.56%.
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