ABSTRACT

Idioms are the significant part of any language and are widely used during communication [1] as they enhance the elegance of that conversation and language as well. Idioms carry a figurative meaning [2] which makes the translation of idioms rather difficult than any text translation. They are the real challenge for machine translation from the preliminary stage of machine translation development. A lot of research has been done for extraction and translation of text in many languages, but no significant research has been captured in Hindi to English idiom translation. In this paper, we have designed a new hybrid machine translation architecture using sub-categories - transfer-based and interlingual-based machine translation of rule-based approach to automate Hindi to English Idiom Translation. This Hindi to English idiom translation system can be expanded for other language pairs and can be embedded with other machine translation system to improve their translation by encapsulating correct idiom translation with their ordinary translation.