PERSPECTIVES OF ARABIC MACHINE TRANSLATION

Abstract

As the interest on Arabic Language continue to increase worldwide for several factors including political, technological, social and cultural. The significant increase in the Arabic electronic textual information in conjunction with the boom of using social networking and openness to different cultures provided a huge collective knowledge source. Such high demand and urgent need for effective technologies and tools to process and translate information from/to Arabic motivated the researchers in Arabic Machine Translation (AMT) in both the Western and Arab world. This paper aim to explore AMT approaches, challenges and proposed solutions, providing a survey for the research activity conducted on this field and evolutions of the existing related current MT solutions.

Keywords

• Machine translation
• Arabic machine translation
• Natural language processing
• Arabic natural language processing