Varanageema: a theoretical basics for English to Sinhala machine translation

Abstract

Grammatically correct target language word generation is a challenging task in any machine translation. To achieve this challenge, most of the machine translation systems used theoretical basics with rule-based approaches. This paper reports the theoretical basics of the English to Sinhala machine translation named as concept of Varanegeema. The English to Sinhala machine translation system has been developed as a multi agent system and it provides grammatically correct Sinhala translation for given English text. This system uses the concept of Varanegeema in Sinhala language as theoretical basics for English to Sinhala machine translation. This Varanegeema concept also reduces the Sinhala word availability in the Sinhala dictionary and gives the way to generate grammatically correct Sinhala words. The translation system has been successfully tested through limited domain and the obtained results that we consider very satisfactory. Details of the concept of Varanegeema, design, implementation and evaluation of the English to Sinhala machine translation are given in this paper.