Marathi to English Machine Translation for Simple Sentences

G V Garje, Adesh Gupta, Aishwarya Desai, Nikhil Mehta, Apurva Ravetkar

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