Automatic Translation between English and Persian Texts

PEnTrans is an automatic bidirectional English/ Persian text translator. It contains two main modules, PEnT1,2. PEnT1 translates English sentences into Persian and PEnT2 performs translation from Persian to English. WSD which is an important part in translation is done in both systems by employing a combination of extended dictionary and corpus based approaches in PEnT1 and employing a combination of rule based, knowledge based and corpus based approaches in PEnT2. In this paper, introducing PEnTrans and its components, we propose a new WSD method by presenting a hybrid measure to score different senses of a word according to its condition in a sentence and other words in the sentence.

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