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8.2. SUMMARY OF THESIS CONTRIBUTIONS
a distinct advantage in the simplicity of the translation process. Furthermore, they are
more flexible in terms of adding extra languages. We also talked about the challenges of
machine translation, with a specific focus on those specific to the Arabic language.
In Chapter 5, we presented a high-level view of the system framework and defined our
evaluation criteria for measuring system performance.
In Chapter 6, we detailed the technical aspects of UniArab, covering all the phases in-
volved in the machine translation process. We described the lexical system that underlies
UniArab, detailing the attribute information held for each type of word. We discussed the
generation phase and how the system maps the logical structure to a target English sen-
tence. We then briefly discussed the user interface, and some of the technical challenges
encountered during the implementation.
In Chapter 7, we presented the results of our evaluation of UniArab for a wide vari-
ety of sentence types. We compared its results to those of the Google and Microsoft
translators as well as human translation. We found that it significantly outperforms the
other automated translation systems, matching human translation. We discussed its limits
in regards to complex sentence structures.
8.2 Summary of thesis contributions
This thesis contributions are summarised as follows:
• A detailed presentation of the structure of Arabic sentences and a discussion of the
language’s unique features.
• A detailed system framework for implementing RRG machine translation for Arabic
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