An English-Arabic bi-directional machine translation tool in the agriculture domain: A rule-based transfer approach for translating expert systems

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 340 AICT, Issue , 2010, Pages 281-290

  Shaalan, Khaled ^a,b   Hendam, Ashraf ^c   Rafea, Ahmed ^d  

^a THE BRITISH UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c TEUES   (Egypt)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arabic natural language processing; bilingual agricultural expert systems; Machine translation; rule based analysis; rule based generation; transfer based translation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; AUTOMATED TRANSLATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; RULE BASED; SCIENTIFIC TEXTS; STAND ALONE TOOLS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78549270414     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16327-2_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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