Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions

In recent years, computer language area has witnessed important evolvement with applications in different domains. Machine Translation MT technology, considered as a subfield, has received important development with different approaches and techniques. Although, many MT systems and tools that suppor...

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Main Authors: Jezia Zakraoui, Moutaz Saleh, Somaya Al-Maadeed, Jihad Mohamed Alja'am
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9634008/
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author Jezia Zakraoui
Moutaz Saleh
Somaya Al-Maadeed
Jihad Mohamed Alja'am
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description In recent years, computer language area has witnessed important evolvement with applications in different domains. Machine Translation MT technology, considered as a subfield, has received important development with different approaches and techniques. Although, many MT systems and tools that support Arabic already exist; however, the quality of the translation is moderate and needs some improvement. In addition, the high demand for effective technologies to process and translate information from/to Arabic motivated the researchers in Arabic Machine Translation (AMT) to propose new approaches and solutions following the mainstream method, notably neural machine translation (NMT). In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review and compare different NMT approaches mainly for Arabic-English (and English-Arabic) machine translation research works. The discussed approaches address different linguistic and technical challenges and problems while demonstrating great success compared to traditional methods. The results of this work can serve the researchers and professional to be up-to-date and provide them with the necessary resources for modelling and improving of the AMT. These resources include corpora, toolkits, techniques and new models. The obtained results outline various findings, critics, and open issues in this area.
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spelling doaj.art-7efaece498444fe391ee9cd6031bd9332022-12-21T19:23:15ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-01916144516146810.1109/ACCESS.2021.31324889634008Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future DirectionsJezia Zakraoui0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5133-3695Moutaz Saleh1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6434-1790Somaya Al-Maadeed2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0241-2899Jihad Mohamed Alja'am3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0989-4648Computer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, Doha, QatarComputer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, Doha, QatarComputer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, Doha, QatarComputer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, Doha, QatarIn recent years, computer language area has witnessed important evolvement with applications in different domains. Machine Translation MT technology, considered as a subfield, has received important development with different approaches and techniques. Although, many MT systems and tools that support Arabic already exist; however, the quality of the translation is moderate and needs some improvement. In addition, the high demand for effective technologies to process and translate information from/to Arabic motivated the researchers in Arabic Machine Translation (AMT) to propose new approaches and solutions following the mainstream method, notably neural machine translation (NMT). In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review and compare different NMT approaches mainly for Arabic-English (and English-Arabic) machine translation research works. The discussed approaches address different linguistic and technical challenges and problems while demonstrating great success compared to traditional methods. The results of this work can serve the researchers and professional to be up-to-date and provide them with the necessary resources for modelling and improving of the AMT. These resources include corpora, toolkits, techniques and new models. The obtained results outline various findings, critics, and open issues in this area.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9634008/Arabic machine translationGoogle translationBLEUneural machine translation
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Moutaz Saleh
Somaya Al-Maadeed
Jihad Mohamed Alja'am
Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions
IEEE Access
Arabic machine translation
Google translation
BLEU
neural machine translation
title Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions
title_full Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions
title_fullStr Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions
title_full_unstemmed Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions
title_short Arabic Machine Translation: A Survey With Challenges and Future Directions
title_sort arabic machine translation a survey with challenges and future directions
topic Arabic machine translation
Google translation
BLEU
neural machine translation
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9634008/
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