IJCATR Volume 13 Issue 11

Study Morphological Complexity of Non-Related Languages to Build a Universal Morphological Model for Machine Translation

MAST Goonatilleke, B Hettige, AMRR Bandara
10.7753/IJCATR1311.1010
keywords : machine translation; morphology; language complexity; English language; Sinhala language

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Language is the primary medium used by human beings to convey their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and information. There are many languages in the world each with its own unique complexities. Therefore, language barrier among people is rapidly increased, and the language complexity has been become an unsolved problem in linguistics. However, this language complexity can be reduced using the technology named “Machine Translation” which is one of the areas in Natural Language Processing. It is a computer-aided machine that can translate one language into another language without any intervention of humans. Although, there are many machine translation systems in the world to translate different language pairs, this process still remained as a complex process due to various reasons. The main problem behind this situation is there is no any universal language interlingua model for machine translation to represent and model language information of a particular language that could use for any translation. As the solution, it is recommended to design and develop a universal language model that could facilitate machine translation. As the first step of this research, developing a universal morphological model for English language is proposed that can be used to generate appropriate target morphological model for any language. The main aim of this article is to study and compare the morphological differences and complexities of two non-related language pairs namely English and Sinhala to design and develop this universal morphological model. Therefore, these two selected languages were deeply studied and analyzed in morphological point of view and many promising differences have been identified in respect to grammar structures, parts-of-speech, inflectional categories and etc.
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Title = "Study Morphological Complexity of Non-Related Languages to Build a Universal Morphological Model for Machine Translation ",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "13",
Issue ="11",
Pages ="65 - 72",
Year = "2024",
Authors ="MAST Goonatilleke, B Hettige, AMRR Bandara"}
  • The language complexity can be understood with respect to the levels of the machine translation pyramid that have been divided into four layers such as lexical or word level, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
  • The paper describes the morphology and morphological complexity of two non-related language pairs namely Sinhala language and English language.
  • Morphology of English language can be divided into four areas such as English noun morphology, English verb morphology, English adjective morphology, and English adverb morphology while morphology of Sinhala language is divided into two areas such Sinhala noun morphology and Sinhala verb morphology.
  • According to the comparison, Sinhala language is more complex than English language.