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6.4. UNIARAB: SCREEN DESIGN
another tense in the target language. Also, the role of word order in the target language
must be considered.
ālktāb book:N h ˘ āld Khalid:MsgN qr֓a read:V
read [do’(x,[read’(x,(y)])] sg 3rd M PAST qr֓a
The results of the parse can be seen here with LS as :
Verb read [do’(x,[read’(x,(y)])] sg 3rd M PAST qr֓a>
where the Proper Noun is Khalid sg unspec M
h ˘ āld
and the Noun is the book sg def M ālktāb
At this point the generation will start; first of all the semantic to syntactic phase deter-
mines the actor and undergoer assignments, assign the core arguments and assign the
predicate in the nucleus. In the last phase, English Sentence Generation, the UniArab
system builds the final shape of a sentence: Khalid read the book. Moreover, there are
some special cases, like the UniArab system adding the verb ‘to be’ or ensure the verb
tense of the source language is reflected as the appropriate tense in the target language.
Also, the rules of word order in the target languages must be considered.
6.4 UniArab: Screen design
The graphical user interface (GUI) of UniArab is interactive. Designing the visual com-
position and temporal behaviour of the GUI is an important aspect of the design of
UniArab. We use one text area to allow a user to input source language sentences, two
buttons, Enter to submit the text to the system, Clear to delete all text in the input and
output text areas. There is a separate text area for output of the translated text. Also there
is a text area for logical structure output of every sentence.
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