Bidirectional Translation for Simple Sentences (English<>Arabic)

(Zainab Ali Khalaf)

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Abstract

The present paper aims at designing a system that analyzes input sentences in the source language (English or Arabic) to ensure its syntactic, semantic and spelling correctness. This is achieved by transformational grammar using semantic aspects properly suggested by Fillmore’s Case Theory and Schank’s Conceptual Graphs to enhance linguistic word meaning and then translate the sentences to the target language (English or Arabic). In addition, the system builds parser trees that explain the functional relations among sentence components in both languages (English and Arabic). Different English and Arabic sentences were tested using the current system, and the results were promising. On the basis of determined acceptance of the sentence, the source sentence (English or Arabic) is translated into the target language (English or Arabic). Key Words: Chomskyian transformational theory, Fillmore’s Theory, Sentence Translation, Schank’s Theory.
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