A generic framework for Arabic to English machine ... - Acsu Buffalo
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6.2.7 Other <strong>Arabic</strong> words<br />
6.3. UNIARAB: GENERATION<br />
In the UniArab system, we capture the in<strong>for</strong>mation shown in Figure 6.10 <strong>for</strong> each other<br />
<strong>Arabic</strong> word. This consists of <strong>Arabic</strong> Other Word, <strong>English</strong> Translation, Logical Structure,<br />
Part of Speech, Tense, Gender, Person, Number and Definiteness.<br />
Figure 6.10: In<strong>for</strong>mation recorded on the other <strong>Arabic</strong> words<br />
Table 6.8: Other <strong>Arabic</strong> words (where ‘NON’ means not applicable)<br />
<strong>Arabic</strong> other words w hy<br />
<strong>English</strong> translation and she<br />
Logical structure NON NON<br />
Part of speech conjunction pronoun<br />
Tense NON NON<br />
Gender NON f<br />
Person NON 3rd<br />
Number NON singular<br />
Definiteness<br />
We allow a variety of attribute possibilities <strong>for</strong> the category ‘other’ in <strong>Arabic</strong> words <strong>for</strong><br />
the moment. Table 6.8 shows examples of two different <strong>Arabic</strong> Other words, whose<br />
<strong>English</strong> translations are ‘and’ and ‘she’.<br />
6.3 UniArab: Generation<br />
The target language generation phases in the UniArab system follow the syntactic re-<br />
alization model. Generation takes as input, the universal logical structure of the input<br />
sentence(s) and produces as output a morphology-syntactic realisation of the sentence in<br />
the target language. The UniArab system is designed as a universal <strong>machine</strong> transla<strong>to</strong>r,<br />
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