Improving Example Based English to Bengali Machine Translation using WordNet
Supervisor Name: Dr. Mumit Khan
Student Name: Khan Md. Anwarus Salam Student ID: 07141002
Email: kmanwar@gmail.com January 2009
Independent Study Report: Improving Example Based English to Bengali Machine Translation Using WordNet
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this Independent Study is based on the results found by myself. Materials of work found by other researcher are mentioned by reference. This Independent Study, neither in whole nor in part, has been previously submitted for any degree.
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Independent Study Report: Improving Example Based English to Bengali Machine Translation Using WordNet
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have to thank specially Dr. Mumit Khan for over viewing my Independent Study work to completion. I also thank all team members of Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing for assisting me in every step.
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Independent Study Report: Improving Example Based English to Bengali Machine Translation Using WordNet
1. ABSTRACT
The goal of this research topic is to develop efficient machine translation system for English to Bengali language by improving my Thesis work “Example Based English to Bengali Machine Translation”. Due to relevance of this work I kept the most of the texts of my thesis. To develop an efficient machine translation system is very important but it is really expensive as it requires a huge amount of time and resources. In all languages there are many words that may have multiple meanings and also some sentence may have multiple grammar structure to express the same meaning, it is a great challenge to do the right semantic analysis. But it is very important to have a machine translation system which can compute all possible outputs in reasonable time and able to choose the best option. We can dramatically improve the performance of English to