Sentence-based machine translation for English-Thai

This paper proposes a combined method of machine translation in which rule-based techniques and and example-based techniques are applied to produce a new system for English-to-Thai sentence translation. The proposed method has the following four features: (1) analyzing an English sentence into an internal structure based on phrase structure grammar and mapping it onto that Thai equivalent sentence pattern; (2) analyzing the different sections found in input sentence and applying the specific rules for those distinguishing linguistic phenomena; (3) generating output sentences by looking up the bilingual dictionary for the equivalent words; and (4) ranking the possible combinations and eliminating the unacceptable translations. The translated sentences will be stored in a database for retrieving or using as a guide for translation.