Machine Translation Model for Hindi-English Poetry using Moses for Primary Level Education

Abstract

Primary Level Education is a place for every child where he/she learns the information pertaining to the languages, cultures and societies of the country. India is one of the best examples for possessing such kind of mass information. Most of the literatures of India are available in Hindi, Sanskrit and in native languages of various linguistic regions. The available literatures are in the form of either prose (textual) or verse (poetic) form and sometimes both. There are numerous translators (like Google Translate) available which can translate the prose (textual) form of literatures from Hindi to English correctly. However, correct translation of the verse (poetic) literature from Hindi to English is still an issue. Further, translation of Hindi poems into English must preserve the similar nature, emotions and behavior so that the children from another country may grasp the Indian flavor in a way similar to the Indian children. Through this research, efforts have been made towards the translation for Hindi poems at Primary Education level into English Poems. A translation model for Hindi-English Poetry Machine Translation has been built which shall be very helpful to develop learning material for the children at Primary Education level. This Translation Model has been built with the use of Monolingual and Parallel corpus and has been implemented in Machine Translation tool MOSES. Further, the developed model has been evaluated with BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy).