Developing an Architecture for Translation Engine using Ontology

Abstract

In translation, analyzing the input sequence in order to determine its grammatical structure with respect to the given formal grammar is called the parsing procedure (Bataineh & Bataine, 2009). In this research, the main idea of the proposed architecture is to utilize the WordNet ontology to be the syntactic guide along with the Transition Network Grammar to determine the grammatical structure for the text to be translated. This is followed by a mapping process between the source and target languages which will enhance the accuracy of the result. Also, it will guarantee that the output will be syntactically acceptable according to the target language rules. This research is an open research which is having ongoing results and developments. Herein, the main architecture is described to open the door for several future steps for further integration with other techniques and approaches.

Keywords: Translation, WordNet, Transition Network Grammars, mapping engine, parsing procedure.