Translating Terminology in Business Annual Reports (English-Arabic)

Translating Dialectal Arabic to English

We present a dialectal Egyptian Arabic to English statistical machine translation system that leverages dialectal to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) adaptation. In contrast to previous work, we first narrow down the gap between Egyptian and MSA by applying an automatic characterlevel transformational model that changes Egyptian to EG′, which looks similar to MSA. The transformations include morpho...

Translating English Names to Arabic Using Phonotactic Rules

With the increasing numbers of the arrivals to the Arabian countries; it is necessary to use Arabic language in writing names on official documents. Because of the difference in writing English names in Arabic language, many methods have been spread for translating English names which led to first, duplication in every single English name written in Arabic and this will lead to negative effects...

Making the Business Case for Translating Non - English Transportation Information

This digest summarizes the results of NCHRP Project 20-48(01) and is based on a study conducted by Dr. John B. Metcalf. The objectives of the study were to assess, describe, and quantify, to the greatest extent possible, the need for the U.S. transportation community to improve access to non-English published information. Dr. Metcalf identified case studies where significant new technologies we...

Third-year Students’ Difficulties in Translating Computing Terms from English into Arabic

Termight: Identifying and Translating Technical Terminology

We propose a semi-automatic tool, ter-might, that helps professional translators and terminologists identify technical terms and their translations. The tool makes use of part-of-speech tagging and word-alignment programs to extract candidate terms and their translations. Although the extraction programs are far from perfect, it isn't too hard for the user to filter out the wheat from the chaff...