Development of english-hindi interactive machine translation

Abstract

Machine Translation systems are still far from being perfect and to improve their performance the concept of Interactive Machine Translation (IMT) was introduced. This paper proposes an IMT system, which uses Statistical Machine Translation and a bilingual corpus on which several algorithms (Word error rate, Position Independent Error Rate, Translation Error Rate, n-grams) are implemented to translate text from English to Indian languages. The proposed system improves both the speed and productivity of the human translators as found through experiments.