Sifar: An Attempt to Develop Interactive Machine Translation System for English to Hindi

The presently available machine translation systems are still far from being perfect, and to improve their performance the concept of interactive machine translation (IMT) was introduced. This paper proposes Sifar, an IMT system, which uses statistical machine translation and a bilingual corpus on which several algorithms (Word error rate, Position Independent Error Rate, Translation Error Rate, n-grams) are implemented to translate text from English to Hindi. The proposed system improves both the speed and productivity of the human translators as found through experiments.