Android platform for machine translation -a focus on Yorùbá Language

Android platform provides useful words and phrases in English language, with translations in Yorùbá language, for the use of visitors to places where the language is spoken; it can be likened to bilingual dictionary of English-Yorùbá. It is developed on Mobile platform for easier accessibility, convenience and portability. Rough Set Theory (RST) is the mathematical tool used in decision support and data analysis of words or phrases that are to be translated. Comparisons between query that is, word or phrase to be translated, are made with the created corpus, using RST. Programming tools employed for mobile platform are JDK 6, Apache Ant 1.8 or later, Android Software Development Kit, Eclipse Integrated Development Environment, Android Developer and Android Studio while latest technologies such as PHP, Mysql,. net, Mssql 2005, 2008, Ajax techies, C#. It brings the usefulness of Information Technology to the doorstep of nonYorùbá tourists or learners who wish to converse, make friends with Yorùbá people or transact business with Yorùbá indigenes that are not literate. It was found after its deployment to be intelligible and accurate with minimal errors. New words and expressions that are suitable for situations, legislation, science, engineering, commerce, computing, mass communication and other sphere of life were created in a large number.

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